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5. Ingraham is a Gen-Xer who grew up with the neoliberal regimes...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 05:23 PM

Mar 2025

...of Reagan, both Bushes, et al. And she's spent her entire career (such as it is) advocating for Thatcherite/Reaganite supply-side economics (which largely doesn't work) as well as more orthodox American economic theory (which largely does work). Now along comes President Trump, who calls himself a Republican and yet violates every principle of traditional Republican economic policy (not to mention orthodox economics). And we're supposed to follow her, like some Pied Piper, into what is certain ruin?!

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Laura Ingraham Tells Her Viewers to Just 'Ignore' Reports About Trump's Market Mayhem [View all] Eugene Mar 2025 OP

She wants those whose income derives from the market to ignore the man behind the curtain? marble falls Mar 2025 #1

Can I just ignore her instead? stoned Mar 2025 #2

She is neither a firebrand nor a reporter. mwmisses4289 Mar 2025 #3

regime press? She's this regime's press. It's like Noem on Fox, said you can't trust the government while Homeland Secy. Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #4

Ingraham is a Gen-Xer who grew up with the neoliberal regimes... keep_left Mar 2025 #5