The other day, Hugo (our intrepid podcast producer) sent me an interesting column from blogger/journalist/pundit Noah Smith. In his piece for his Substack Noahpinion, Smith persuasively makes the case that seven trends will shift American politics and policy to the right over the coming decade: the rightward drift of non-white voters, dissatisfaction with DEI, the fiscal crunch leading to the rise of financial conservatism, the 2020 protests and the re-emergence of support for law enforcement, the broken asylum loophole, a conservative Supreme Court and the backlash to the protests against Israel.
Nice analysis. For #1, I recommend reading Bjorn Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger's work on how the "solutions" to climate change are unscientific, uneconomical, and tyrannical. The fearmongering about a climate emergency is taking a toll on kids' mental health, just like with COVID where the solutions like lockdowns and school closures were far worse than the disease itself. For #4 and #5, these charts show how government and administrative bloat have destroyed healthcare and education: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/fire-dei-esg-hr-commissar-administrative-bloat
Nice analysis. For #1, I recommend reading Bjorn Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger's work on how the "solutions" to climate change are unscientific, uneconomical, and tyrannical. The fearmongering about a climate emergency is taking a toll on kids' mental health, just like with COVID where the solutions like lockdowns and school closures were far worse than the disease itself. For #4 and #5, these charts show how government and administrative bloat have destroyed healthcare and education: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/fire-dei-esg-hr-commissar-administrative-bloat