My latest commentary for Project Syndicate, this one on why neoliberal doctrine, as embraced and revised by MAGA Nation, makes unapologetic rule by minority possible, and necessary. As recent pronouncements from the Tech Bros. and the new Speaker of the House have made explicit, this crowd is enthusiastically anti-originalist in the sense that it’s willing to repudiate the Founders, who staked their lives on the proposition that liberty and equality were compatible, indeed that neither could survive in the absence of the other. In other words—in James Madison’s words—the rights of property could not supersede or countermand the rights of persons; if they did, the poor would be “sacrificed to the rich,” and the American republic would expire under the rule of an oligarchy of wealth.
Here’s the link, with no paywall. If the paywall is still up, please let me know, Tony Daniel, and I’ll get a password or whatever.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/neoliberalism-turns-against-democracy-by-james-livingston-2023-11?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=278c294228-sunday_newsletter_11_05_2023&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-278c294228-107115341&mc_cid=278c294228&mc_eid=5c47be853f
Jim, The link worked in the e mail. Not here. The one I just added here, should do it.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/neoliberalism-turns-against-democracy-by-james-livingston-2023-11?mc_cid=278c294228&mc_eid=5c47be853f&barrie