is a smoking ruin.<\/a> The exaltation of conservative economic theory over reality reminds me of nothing so much as Stalin\u2019s five year plans and his penchant for shooting meteorologists for \u201ccounter-revolutionary weather forecasts\u201d.<\/p>\nWhen a political subculture that has been so wrong about so much so many times for so long demands that I credit its \u201cprudential judgments\u201d over those of the Magisterium, I demand that it show me some bloody Prudence and not a track record of visible-from-space wrongness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026 is a smoking ruin. The exaltation of conservative economic theory over reality reminds me of nothing so much as Stalin\u2019s five year plans and his penchant for shooting meteorologists for \u201ccounter-revolutionary weather forecasts\u201d. When a political subculture that has been so wrong about so much so many times for so long demands that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[551],"class_list":["post-94246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-conservative-anti-charism-of-discernment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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