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Richard A. Epstein, the influential coronavirus contrarian, is the second worst person with that surname, but he's making a bid for the top spot. Chotiner's interview with him is, as one would expect, an intellectual slaughter.
If you think Richard A. Epstein's views on the coronavirus are wild, wait till you read him on the New Deal or civil rights.
"Law and economics": right-wing law professors, with little expertise in economics, using jargon from that discipline to provide arguments for Republican judges to justify politicized decisions. It's been a highly successful grift & not surprising its shaping coronavirus policy
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Jeet Heer
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1. So I have a few thoughts on Richard A. Epstein, shoddy contrarian arguments about coronavirus pandemic, the anti-empiricism of Austrian economics, the popularity of dubious neo-Larmarckian biology among conservatives, John Lukacs, & the science fiction of Gene Wolfe.
1. This @IChotiner interview -- really a disembowlment -- of coronavirus contrarian Richard A. Epstein is, quite justifiably, getting a lot of attention. I wanted to give some historical context to explain Epstein's dingbat theories. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…
3. Epstein is of course a familiar type: a know-it-all law contrarian who thinks he knows better than the experts (he's also a climate change minimizer). His contrarianism is all the more dangerous because it has roots in an influential intellectual tradition, Austrian economics
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Jeet Heer
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1. The whole debate about "enthusiasm" for Biden is badly framed. In normal election, Democrats need both their loyal partisans and more marginal voters (who tend to be younger & poorer). Clinton 2016 had plenty of enthusiasm among partisans but fell short with marginal voters.
2. In the abstract, Biden looks to have many of the same problems as Clinton. He's super-popular among partisan Dems, but struggles with marginal (particularly young). In most states he lost primary vote of voters under 45.
3. So: if this were a normal election, I'd worry about Biden. But 2020 is hardly normal. Trump is super-unpopular among Dems, including marginal voters. And while he's enjoyed a crisis bump, it's likely to fade after months of coronavirus & recession.
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Jeet Heer
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1. Mark my words: the Trumpian counter-narrative is already shaping up. If things go really bad, Trump will (as he's done all along) find other people to blame: China, Democratic governors. It fits in with his existing narrative of xenophobia and anti-cosmopolitanism.
2. Let's assume a political best case scenario: Trump defeated in fall election. Even then, he and his followers (who will remain plurality of GOP) will blame everything on China/Dem Governors/Deep State etc.
3. If Trump is defeated, he'll still retain his hold on a large chunk one of America's political parties. He'll continue to tweet conspiracy theories. He might run again (as a way of ensuring that he can accuse any criminal prosecution can be portrayed as political persecution)
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