So what is the TL DR of the video?
CHINA is pretty much fucked, so is germany.
So what is the TL DR of the video?
Ahh, thank you and I'm sorry you are stuck in California. One of my managers has to go out there for a week or so.
Well, Zeihan has demonstrated once again that, whatever expertise he has on economics on a global level, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about when it's comes to domestic politics.
Might want to reread my previous post, since I added more stuff to it.snip
I just stopped listening to him after he started calling everyone who supported Trump idiots; the man knows about as much about domestic politics as your average teenager on social media does, and he is clearly letting his personal bias color whatever information he come across. Makes you wonder what else his bias might be blinding him to.Well, Zeihan has demonstrated once again that, whatever expertise he has on economics on a global level, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about when it comes to domestic politics. (It's obvious that he still completely believes the MSM narrative about January 6th, as well as thinking that populist candidates are unelectable.)
I just stopped listening to him after he started calling everyone who supported Trump idiots; the man knows about as much about domestic politics as your average teenager on social media does, and he is clearly letting his personal bias color whatever information he come across. Makes you wonder what else his bias might be blinding him to.
He has a narrow skill set, for international stuff he knows his stuff for domestic stuff he doesn't know what hes talking about for the most part.
I just stopped listening to him after he started calling everyone who supported Trump idiots; the man knows about as much about domestic politics as your average teenager on social media does, and he is clearly letting his personal bias color whatever information he come across. Makes you wonder what else his bias might be blinding him to.
When has he ever said that Trump supporters were idiots?
"Today, this is what the Republican coalition looks like; it is custom-made for the culture war. But it can't read a map, and it can't do math."
I'm sorry; but how else am I supposed to interpret that statement?
"Today, this is what the Republican coalition looks like; it is custom-made for the culture war. But it can't read a map, and it can't do math."
I'm sorry; but how else am I supposed to interpret that statement?
I think you're stretching in an attempt to be charitable to Zeihan, but that's your prerogative. Personally though? I don't buy it. Whatever you think he means, that's not what he said.Valid criticism?
He doesn't mean they're too stupid to look at a map and know what it says or how to do basic math--he means can you look at a map and understand the significance? Understand the strategic threats and opportunities? Can you understand the complicated mathematics that goes into economics and social models?
And for most of the current Republican party, the answer is no. More importantly, even if they could, they wouldn't care. That doesn't mean that the Republican party doesn't have some good points of their own. They do. They absolutely do. But they've thrown out the people who are concerned with grand strategy and economies of scale. And impart for good reason.
I think you're stretching in an attempt to be charitable to Zeihan, but that's your prerogative. Personally though? I don't buy it. Whatever you think he means, that's not what he said.
While I agree that much of the establishment people concerned with such things have been thrown out, when it comes to Economics, I cannot help but feel like... good riddance? I mean, seriously, can you name a time in recent history where the "mainstream establishment" economists have actually been right about anything? More often it has been the economics who are outside the mainstream that have been accurate, and the populist right still embraces many very good economic thinkers like Sowell and Walter Williams (RIP) who are usually rejected by the mainstream establishment economists.They absolutely do. But they've thrown out the people who are concerned with grand strategy and economies of scale. And impart for good reason.
While I agree that much of the establishment people concerned with such things have been thrown out, when it comes to Economics, I cannot help but feel like... good riddance?
I mean, seriously, can you name a time in recent history where the "mainstream establishment" economists have actually been right about anything? More often it has been the economics who are outside the mainstream that have been accurate, and the populist right still embraces many very good economic thinkers like Sowell and Walter Williams (RIP) who are usually rejected by the mainstream establishment economists.
I mean, we even see it play out with policies. Obama, and now Biden, embraced the economic establishment, and followed their policies to the letter, and all we saw was anemic low growth, wages getting outpaced by inflation, and systemic offshoring.
Trump rejected Modern Monetary Theory and the economic establishment, which led to them constantly projecting a collapse of the economy under Trump because his policies were out of step with their ideas... but instead we saw major economic growth, real wage growth outpacing inflation and the lowest unemployment rate in decades... it took the Pandemic and the systemic year long lockdowns to actually collapse the Trump economy... and those polices were not Trump's natural instinct, rather, those were the ones forced on him by the same technocratic elites who hated him.
I haven't gotten around to watching the video yet, but by your description it sounds like he's calling the Republicans dumb for not being a neoliberal like he is?
Not sharing his grand strategic thinking is different than not having it. Bannon and that crew have it. It involves allying with the likes of Le Pens and Russia often against China and the American and European left.
This is maybe where so much of his thinking breaks down. The great threat to Republicans is Democrats/domestic Communists, to the degree those two overlap. Global politics is an extension of domestic politics: Islam is a partisan issue. China is a partisian issue. Cuba is a partisian issue.
In an increasingly globablized world, the global is closely tied to the local. There's a reason there's so much focus on French politics. Because whether France gets a right wing government matters globally.
That Russia has a right wing ish government matters globally. Like, how many right wing creators are kept afloat thanks to subscribe star, a Russian company, which gives them enough insulation to not be crushed by Silicon Valley.