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The Anderson Files: Defeating GOP zombie
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Oct. 27, 2022
Volume XXX, number 11
Cover: GerRee Hinshaw in ‘Raised on Ronstadt.’ Photo by Michael Ensminger.
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welcomes your correspondence via email (letters@boulderweekly.com). Preference will be given to short letters (under 300 words) that deal with recent stories or local issues, and letters may be edited for style, length and libel. Letters should include your name, address and telephone number for verifcation. We do not publish anonymous letters or those signed with pseudonyms. Letters become the property of Boulder Weekly and will be published on our website. On Sept. 23, Fox Business’ Larry Kudlow exclaimed, “ e U.S. midterm elections cavalry arrived early in London! … e new British prime minister, Liz Truss, has laid out a terri c supply-side economic growth plan which looks a lot like the basic thrust of Kevin McCarthy’s Commitment to America plan.”
Kudlow was the former director of the National Economic Council under Trump. He gushed that Truss’ plan of slashing taxes for the rich and deregulating energy was a “Reagan- atcher-Trump economic policy.” Another Trump economic adviser, Stephen Moore, also celebrated. ey were echoed by several right-wing media gures and prominent Republicans.
But in the U.K., there was a public uproar and the pound plunged. en, 44 days later, Truss was forced to resign. at didn’t change the views of Truss’ U.S. fans. One Fox News
Defeating GOP zombie Reagonomics commentator even said she was removed by a “globalist coup.” and fossil fuel autocracy Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has talked about by Dave Anderson the persistence of “zombie Reaganomics.” He has documented how “four decades of experience” have disproved the Republicans’ trickle-down theory that deregulation and tax cuts for the rich result in higher wages and faster economic growth. e GOP economic policies have been immensely unpopular, so Republicans would deploy a dog whistle strategy of bigotry (race, gender, anti-LGBTQ) while campaigning. Since Trump, they are more and more explicitly nasty. It’s “let them eat hate.” Meanwhile, Eric Lipton of the New York Times reports that oil and gas industry lobbyists are hoping that the Republicans can take control of the House in the midterms. ey are preparing to attack what they consider to be “the Biden administration’s anti-fossil-fuel agenda.” ey are “preparing to team up with House Republicans
