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Nov 05, 2025
Editor: The first consideration to make with regard to Stephens, is that he was a former employee of the Jerusliam Post: A paid propgandist for the State of Israel! Yet he still managers to write for The New York Times that employes David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, David French, all Zionist ! Not forgetting the very fact that Mamdani is a Muslim?
Editor: Stephens introduction makes way for a ‘Self -serving ‘History’ of bad political ideas:
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
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Solyndra to Sematech (not to mention Alitalia or “Such a Bad Experience Never Again” Sabena)
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America First? The slogan of Charles Lindbergh and other pre-World War II isolationists should have been buried forever on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, it emerged from its grave some 75 years later.
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But it isn’t just the Trump administration that is reawakening the moral and intellectual zombies of the past. Everywhere one looks there are policy necromancers.
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The platform of the national Democratic Socialists of America calls for a 32-hour workweek “with no reduction in pay or benefits”; “free public universal child care and pre-K”; “college for all”; the cancellation of “all student-loan debt”; “universal rent control”; “massive public investment to transition away from fossil fuels”; “guaranteed support for workers in the fossil fuel industry,” and “expansive paid family leave.” Not only would American workers stand to benefit, but so would everybody else, since the D.S.A. wants to offer these benefits to anyone who wishes to come to United States through an open-borders policy.
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Oh, wait — many did. “Bolivarian socialism,” welcomed by the Jeremy Corbyns of the world, took Venezuela from being South America’s richest country to a humanitarian catastrophe. Sweden attempted a form of socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, only to reverse course after it experienced massive capital flight and a financial crisis during which interest rates hit 75 percent. France’s Socialist government imposed a 75 percent tax on earnings over one million euros in 2012; it dropped the tax two years later as the wealthy packed their bags. Britain’s National Health Service, whose advocates chronically complain is “underfunded,” is in a state of perpetual crisis even as health care, according to the BBC, gobbles up roughly one third of government spending.
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“The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money,” Margaret Thatcher once observed. To put it another way, you can’t abolish billionaires, as Zohran 1,036,051 the D.S.A.’s poster child, would like, and still expect them to keep footing your bills.
If socialism is foolish, there’s something worse: the “socialism of fools,” antisemitism, now rapidly ascendant on the MAGA right.
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Editor: Mr. Stephens is a Zionist of the most toxic kind! Here he produces a simulacram of a critique, that should have roused the sleeping majority ? But the victory of Zohran Mamdani at 1,036,051 votes, renders Bret Stephens political commetary into a nullity!
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