There’s a saying that any idiot can tear down a barn—and it’s true. There’s only so much you can tear down before things fall apart.
The Republican Party, the vehicle for this conservative movement—this corporate counterrevolution—is focused entirely on weakening the federal government. But we’ve seen with the Subprime Crisis; with COVID; with climate change that this goal is fundamentally at odds with dealing with real world problems.
Neoliberalism is not serious governing philosophy.