Source: Beat The Press
by Dean Baker
“E.J. Dionne is a decent person and offers reasonable takes on most policy issues, but he really is enmeshed in the right’s view of the world. In the middle of a piece praising Vice-President Harris’[s] coalition building and economic agenda, Dionne tells readers: ‘She champions the new economic consensus that President Joe Biden began to bring to life, replacing the view that markets alone, spurred by low taxes and deregulation, can save us.’ It is totally understandable that the right wants people to believe that ‘markets alone’ were responsible for the massive upward redistribution of income of the last half century. But it happens to be total crap. Starting with my favorite, government-granted patent and copyright monopolies are not ‘markets alone.'” (08/26/24)
https://cepr.net/e-j-dionne-wapos-liberal-columnist-pushes-right-wing-propaganda/