USDA considering economic aid for farmers this fall, says secretary

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16. Destroy the market through protectionist policy, then subsidize the losers with government checks

These are the great believers in Saint Milton Friedman?

Good God. The Democrats, are, of course, then encouraged to occupy the Chicago School space abandoned by the MAGAs. They should decline, and move hard left instead. If the market has failed to produce fair trade, then it has failed. Say the MAGA premise is correct, but its solution is insane and incoherent. That's the play, not slotting oneself into the Friedmanite spot to be further abused.

The people know neoliberalism is a failure. That's why they vote for Trump in the first place. You have to give them the viable alternative, not take up the anti-Trump position from inside the neoliberal catastrophe.