Oren Cass
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818 appearances
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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Our actual capacity to make things, to create jobs, to innovate, to compete with China is in sharp decline.
And a system that does not reward that above all else is not going to produce the kinds of outcomes that we want.
And so whether it is on these questions of financialization, if it's on these questions of trade and industry –
I think there's an interesting sort of immigration dimension to it and the extent to which we sort of say, well, we're just going to have to bring in – we can't find the workers we want here.
So our solution is to just bring in somebody else.
The formula we have settled on is not one that is actually conducive to the liberty and prosperity of the United States.
And I think we are on what many people rightly feel is a downward slide that we need to reverse.
There is a small and shrinking and declining in influence group that will go down with the ship saying that.
I would say it is at this point pretty far out of the mainstream, certainly within the Republican Party and Republican politics.
And in a lot of the sort of new republications, what the kinds of programs younger people are participating in,
There are very few people at this point who would say, no, things have been going well.
This is the right track.
Yeah.
No, so that's a perfect example.
I think you'll find – and again, the – you know, politics is politics.
People whose job is to promote how well the Trump administration is doing will point to the things that show the Trump administration is doing well.
But in the actual sort of intellectual debates, today's equivalent of what Friedman and Hayek were arguing in a prior generation, you won't find anyone anymore saying, but look at the S&P 500.
Things are fine.
Yeah.
That's a punchline, not an actual argument.
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