This past Sunday, I appeared on Up With Chris Hayes, where I spoke briefly about the rise of austerity politics in the Democratic Party (begin video at 2:13). My comments were sparked by Bruce Bartlett’s terrific piece “‘Starve the Beast’: Origins and Development of a Budgetary Metaphor” in the Summer 2007 issue of The Independent Review. Barlett is a longtime observer of the Republican Party, from without and within. He was a staffer for Ron Paul and Jack Kemp, as well as a policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official under George HW Bush. Now he’s a critic of the GOP, writing sharp commentary at the New York Times and the Financial Times. He and I have argued about […]
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Economies, The Right
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Tags Alan Greenspan, balanced budget, Bruce Bartlett, debt ceiling, George HW Bush, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Grover Norquist, Herbert Hoover, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jude Wanniski, Milton Friedman, Obama, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, starve the beast, tax cuts, Up With Chris Hayes
I was on Up With Chris Hayes this morning talking about conservatism and the GOP. For various reasons, I can’t yet embed the video here. All I can do for now is provide the links to the three segments in which I appeared. I hope to post an embedded version later. For now, though… Part 1: Racial backlash is in the DNA of the modern conservative movement. Part 2: The waning power of law and order as a conservative idea. Part 3: How the Democrats became the party of austerity. Update (11 pm) I fixed the link to Part 1.