The Economic Nationalist

Regular readers may observe that the Economic Nationalist has not had much to say about the reckless economic maneuvering of the early Obama administration. The reason for this is that it is very difficult to say anything sensible about it. The maneuvers neither follow a recognizable economic theory nor seek prudently to reproduce that which, whether a theory exists for it or not, has worked well in the past. The maneuvers do not appear principally to be motivated by any particular economic principle other than a twisted, extremely vague Keynsianism. Rather, they seem to be motivated by extraordinarily undisciplined Democratic self-indulgence, using the Crash of 2008 as an excuse to implement—all in a rush, before anyone has time to regret it—any and every federal program Democrats had been wishing all these years to implement which the taxpayers did not want or could not afford.

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A large fraction of Republicans in the commentariat are letting their despair at having lost legislative and executive control to the Democrats fuel their worst fears.

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Among the Economic Nationalist’s distinctive core beliefs is that the grave troubles that beset our civilization are largely self-inflicted. Even so, the blog believes that most such troubles would soon evaporate if we Americans would only moderate our pride and cease to insist on viewing certain things (like race, religion and culture) as other than they plainly are. The left is far more prone to such error but the right can stumble into it, too—particularly into error of the latter kind. This article regards such an error, an error into which some of our finest, most energetic brethren on the right have repeatedly fallen. The error concerns the nature and prospects of third-party politics on the American right.

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