by Dan Mitchell | Feb 6, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Socialism
Politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say that their goal of “democratic socialism” is very different from the socialism of Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, as well as the socialism of the former Soviet Union. And they doubtlessly would get...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Trade
Earlier this year, I identified Trump’s “worst ever tweet.” I was wrong. That tweet, which displayed an astounding level of economic ignorance, is now old news. Trump issued a tweet yesterday that is far worse because it combines bad economic theory with horrifying...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 26, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
I’ve written about how totalitarian ideologies such as communism and Nazism have a lot in common. Both subordinate the individual to the state and both give the state power over the economy. And both slaughter millions of people. My buddy from grad school, Matt Kibbe,...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2018 | Big Government, Blogs
In 2016, I toured the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia, which memorializes the victims of communist butchery in that nation. Earlier today, I was lucky enough to get a tour through the House of Terror, a museum in Budapest that commemorates the horrors that...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I have a special page to highlight honest left wingers, and I’ve acknowledged several who have confessed that gun control is misguided. Jeffrey Goldberg admits gun ownership reduces crime. Justin Cronin explains how he became a left-wing supporter of gun rights....
