… is a smoking ruin. The exaltation of conservative economic theory over reality reminds me of nothing so much as Stalin’s five year plans and his penchant for shooting meteorologists for “counter-revolutionary weather forecasts”.
When a political subculture that has been so wrong about so much so many times for so long demands that I credit its “prudential judgments” over those of the Magisterium, I demand that it show me some bloody Prudence and not a track record of visible-from-space wrongness.