INSIDE THIS ISSUE
T his month, we’re revisiting a topic you can’t mention in polite company, but also can’t seem to escape... politics. Whether you’re all-in for Trump or batty for Beto, the politics of the 2020 presidential election have the potential to become something more explosive and divisive than we’ve ever seen before... A clash between socialists, populists, and those of us who know a bad deal when we see it... regardless of party or politics. Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke explains why playing politics is a zero-sum game... offers two simple but important lessons on why government doesn’t work, no matter who runs it... and has a quiz for aspiring 2020 Democratic candidates... Featured contributor Andrew Ferguson shows us the absurdity and flaws of AOC’s Green New Deal... Best-selling author Bill Bonner takes a knife to our crony capitalist system... Journalist Alice Lloyd reports on the recent surge of support for Democratic Socialist candidates among millennials today...
Analyst and editor Bill McGilton warns that today’s record-high consumer debt could be the catalyst for the next bear market... while author Geoffrey Norman turns a critical eye toward the debt pipeline that is higher education... Congressman Ron Paul takes Congress to task for a recent gun control vote... Former CIA analyst Buck Sexton tells us what’s in store if the Democrats take 2020... And our resident anonymous Book Grump reviews and rips some books by a few 2020 candidates who really, really want your vote... and probably shouldn’t get it... We’ve uploaded a PDF suitable for printing to our archive page. And tell us what you think at feedback@ americanconsequences.com. Regards, Steven Longenecker
In politics, only one side can win. Which is bad. But what’s worse is this means there have to be sides...
P.J. O’Rourke
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April 2019
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