The other thing that’s little known about this class of worker is how much they are tied into Wall Street through the investment of public employee pension funds. In addition state budgets depend on these funds gaining consistent returns every year.
"The pre-Trump GOP, for thirty or so years, was taken fully by a pathology dictating that “the Freer the Markets, the Freer the People”."
Was it? That was their rhetoric, but the GOP over the past 30 years was never a free market party. Trump made it more protectionist, but did not fundamentally alter its course. The "Paultards" were always a hated minority among the Rs, and they never won many primaries or found much business support.
"Instead, what I see is a dogma"
I'm not seeing it. College administrators really are a fundamental Democratic constituency.
"politically self-destructive policy and rhetoric"
Is it really? Democrats have the overwhelming advantage on racial issues in polling. Have they reduced that to any great degree over the past five to ten years?
"This is because for too many Democratic politicians and media figures, bureaucracy and democracy are no more distinguishable than free markets and free people were in the eyes of the Reaganites."
No doubt.
"In the coming years, the Democratic party will have to choose between protecting an ever-weakening, sclerotic bureaucracy and making a real attempt to win at democracy."
This idea Democrats are more doomed than Republicans are is fairly ridiculous. It's Democrats that are making gains in the fastest-growing suburbs. Look at how many congressional districts Biden flipped relative to Clinton in 2020.
"Was it? That was their rhetoric, but the GOP over the past 30 years was never a free market party."
I think that was the author's point, by referring to both Democratic and Republic beliefs as dogma, the idea is more of an explanatory narrative to provide a cover story than a rigorously intelligent policy platform that would be used to evaluate proposals and outcomes objectively.
"This idea Democrats are more doomed than Republicans are is fairly ridiculous."
I'm a bit intrigued by what I think the author is suggesting. Since both parties are basically equally inept, whichever party ends up in charge for a significant amount of time will make an increasingly large and consequential collection of policy decisions (i.e. mistakes) that will eventually build up such a backlog of public resentment that they'll end up being forced to some level of accountability.
While that might not actually change any political narratives and might simply result in the electoral pendulum swinging back to the other side for a brief period of time, the dream of true accountability and actual change happening are a nice fantasy :-)
The other thing that’s little known about this class of worker is how much they are tied into Wall Street through the investment of public employee pension funds. In addition state budgets depend on these funds gaining consistent returns every year.
"The pre-Trump GOP, for thirty or so years, was taken fully by a pathology dictating that “the Freer the Markets, the Freer the People”."
Was it? That was their rhetoric, but the GOP over the past 30 years was never a free market party. Trump made it more protectionist, but did not fundamentally alter its course. The "Paultards" were always a hated minority among the Rs, and they never won many primaries or found much business support.
"Instead, what I see is a dogma"
I'm not seeing it. College administrators really are a fundamental Democratic constituency.
"politically self-destructive policy and rhetoric"
Is it really? Democrats have the overwhelming advantage on racial issues in polling. Have they reduced that to any great degree over the past five to ten years?
"This is because for too many Democratic politicians and media figures, bureaucracy and democracy are no more distinguishable than free markets and free people were in the eyes of the Reaganites."
No doubt.
"In the coming years, the Democratic party will have to choose between protecting an ever-weakening, sclerotic bureaucracy and making a real attempt to win at democracy."
This idea Democrats are more doomed than Republicans are is fairly ridiculous. It's Democrats that are making gains in the fastest-growing suburbs. Look at how many congressional districts Biden flipped relative to Clinton in 2020.
"Was it? That was their rhetoric, but the GOP over the past 30 years was never a free market party."
I think that was the author's point, by referring to both Democratic and Republic beliefs as dogma, the idea is more of an explanatory narrative to provide a cover story than a rigorously intelligent policy platform that would be used to evaluate proposals and outcomes objectively.
"This idea Democrats are more doomed than Republicans are is fairly ridiculous."
I'm a bit intrigued by what I think the author is suggesting. Since both parties are basically equally inept, whichever party ends up in charge for a significant amount of time will make an increasingly large and consequential collection of policy decisions (i.e. mistakes) that will eventually build up such a backlog of public resentment that they'll end up being forced to some level of accountability.
While that might not actually change any political narratives and might simply result in the electoral pendulum swinging back to the other side for a brief period of time, the dream of true accountability and actual change happening are a nice fantasy :-)