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Seen in today's Morning Memo [1]

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Date: 2024-12-16  

Excerpt Of The Day

Toby Buckle, on how the disease of affluence rather than economic anxiety explains the rise of Trumpism:

Americans are prosperous but without any deep sense of obligation to others. We are a highly commercial, individualist people, and when we let go of even a thin liberal conception of the public good, we become nasty, petty, small, vindictive, and irrational.

The American Republic has been pulled down, possibly past the point of no return, by affluent people. People who have lives their ancestors would have literally killed for. Who on average spend 10% of their pay on groceries, the lowest in the country’s history, not to mention human history. Who are lashing out at others at the slightest inconvenience, because they want to lash out at others.

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