Industrial policy is the obvious candidate for populist fusion. You have to ditch the free market fundamentalists on the Right and the environmentalists on the Left though to create a new politics that isn't bipartisan but cross-partisan. Getting rid of the FMF is obvious but further explanation is needed for the environmentalists. The discussion about the electric cars highlights this. Yeah, the greenies want them but they don't want mining, power plants, grid upgrades, nuclear power, solar and wind farms (unless they are out in flyover country) or the very messy need to recycle components both of the cars and the things that are upstream. . Tie industrial policy to that and it will crash and burn. The lithium batteries will burn for weeks.
Industrial policy is the obvious candidate for populist fusion. You have to ditch the free market fundamentalists on the Right and the environmentalists on the Left though to create a new politics that isn't bipartisan but cross-partisan. Getting rid of the FMF is obvious but further explanation is needed for the environmentalists. The discussion about the electric cars highlights this. Yeah, the greenies want them but they don't want mining, power plants, grid upgrades, nuclear power, solar and wind farms (unless they are out in flyover country) or the very messy need to recycle components both of the cars and the things that are upstream. . Tie industrial policy to that and it will crash and burn. The lithium batteries will burn for weeks.
Tariffs, what tariffs? Does anyone remember what is supposed to happen on July 9?