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Libertarian Populism, Trashed by Krugman, Won't Save Republicans
Never one to waste time, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has gone on the attack against a tiny conservative political movement before most people have heard of it or, indeed, it has really come together as a movement.
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Never one to waste time, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has gone on the attack against a tiny conservative political movement before most people have heard of it or, indeed, it has really come together as a movement.
Krugman's column trashing "libertarian populism," which showed no evidence of first-hand familiarity with the work of anyone who might claim the label, ran on July 11. It was not until Monday that Tim Carney, a libertarian-populist writer (and a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute), got around to publishing a manifesto for the group. It is a document that contains several good ideas -- but not a viable political strategy for conservatives.