With Trump’s Vance pick, capitalism is politically homeless
With Trump’s Vance pick, capitalism is politically homeless
Albert Einstein said, “What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.”
Such is the case for free market capitalism in the United States, which has found itself politically without a home faster than one of the three little pigs facing a wolf’s breath.
Already this week, former President Donald Trump tapped Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate while President Joe Biden announced plans to place caps on rent. Whatever your political persuasions are, it has quickly become apparent that capitalism will not be on the ballot in November.
For Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party, this is nothing new. While the president and politicians such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) give limp-wristed affirmations of their support for capitalism, they do so knowing that the average person is too economically illiterate to spot the difference between the policies they push and the values they proclaim. In practice, the Left has been working to move the country away from capitalism for many years.
But with the ascension of characters such as Vance, along with Trump himself, capitalism has experienced a startling drop in popularity on the Right…