Bidens industrial policy begins and ends at the money printer
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One of the best things out of the whole Trump administration was operation warp speed and basically both sides have completed rejected the learnings from it. (for obviously different reasons)
When you want to get important stuff done, you have to focus on actually pushing forward and not letting procedure get in the way of progress.
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>But one other thing that was happening, and you saw it applied to people like Rogan, was cultural coercion. It wasn’t the power of the government yelling at you. It was the liberals online. It was the public health authorities who were just tweeting — but who were saying: Everybody has to stay inside. We’re locking down the economy. But definitely go protest for George Floyd because racism is a public health issue, as well.
>For people who were already skeptical, that was a real shattering of any trust left. But the school lockdowns were another big piece of that. I was just interviewing Jared Polis for a column, the governor of Colorado. And one reason I think he had such a huge resounding re-election in 2022 — he won by almost 20 points in a not-easy year for Democrats. I mean, his win was no less impressive than what Ron DeSantis did in Florida, to me. But also, I think one reason Colorado did not shift right very much this year — it was only a point or two — is Polis among Democrats was a very — he was a sort of Libertarian-adjacent Democratic governor. He wore a mask, he got vaccinated, he gave out good information — but he was much quicker to reopen Colorado. And he was much more respectful of the idea that individual liberty was one of the equities that needed to be weighed here. And he was telling me that people still come up to him on the streets and thank him for the way that he managed the pandemic in Colorado.
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See Ezra Klein’s NYT article: [https://archive.ph/aK7iB](https://archive.ph/aK7iB)
And Niskanen’s report: [https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-how-we-need-now-a-capacity-agenda-for-2025/](https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-how-we-need-now-a-capacity-agenda-for-2025/)
Bidens industrial policy begins and ends at the money printer
One of the best things out of the whole Trump administration was operation warp speed and basically both sides have completed rejected the learnings from it. (for obviously different reasons)
When you want to get important stuff done, you have to focus on actually pushing forward and not letting procedure get in the way of progress.
>But one other thing that was happening, and you saw it applied to people like Rogan, was cultural coercion. It wasn’t the power of the government yelling at you. It was the liberals online. It was the public health authorities who were just tweeting — but who were saying: Everybody has to stay inside. We’re locking down the economy. But definitely go protest for George Floyd because racism is a public health issue, as well.
>For people who were already skeptical, that was a real shattering of any trust left. But the school lockdowns were another big piece of that. I was just interviewing Jared Polis for a column, the governor of Colorado. And one reason I think he had such a huge resounding re-election in 2022 — he won by almost 20 points in a not-easy year for Democrats. I mean, his win was no less impressive than what Ron DeSantis did in Florida, to me. But also, I think one reason Colorado did not shift right very much this year — it was only a point or two — is Polis among Democrats was a very — he was a sort of Libertarian-adjacent Democratic governor. He wore a mask, he got vaccinated, he gave out good information — but he was much quicker to reopen Colorado. And he was much more respectful of the idea that individual liberty was one of the equities that needed to be weighed here. And he was telling me that people still come up to him on the streets and thank him for the way that he managed the pandemic in Colorado.