The Economy Is Suffering From Too Little Government Intervention, Not Too Much

The inauguration decorations had barely been cleared from the West Lawn when the neoliberal industrial complex started drumming up panic about inflation. Republicans desperate for an attack line against an incoming president — the right-wing think tanks, the media machine behind them, corporate executives, and even former Barack Obama advisor and corporate remora Larry Summers — all linked arms before a single law had been passed to tell Americans how having their government step in to protect their economic security was actually a bad thing. And with inflation continuing to tick up, they’ve kept up the strategy.

Tucker Carlson has been telling his viewers that the rising prices they’re seeing are due…