(#SupremeCourt, #SCOTUS) zu sehen, an den i. Ü. nicht viel später der vorgenannte plutokratiefreundliche #Demokratie-Brandstifter #LewisPowell berufen wurde.
Die politisiert-volkswirtschaftliche Grundlage lieferte hierfür jedoch der Erz-#Republikanische Witschafts-#Nobelpreisträger #JamesBuchanan mit seiner #VirginiaSchool-Kaderschmiede, bereits Jahre zuvor, spätestens ab 1965.

In diesem Jahrhundert wurde dann die #US-Demokratie vom ge"highjacked"ten @HistoPol @peter_koenig @HistoPol

@MAJ1

👍
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Nowadays, any #neoliberal acolyte--in particular, if their native language is English--is most likely linked to what #EdwardLuttwak called #Turbocapitalism, which I think aptly describes the policies #JamesBuchanan's #VirginiaSchool propagates (calling it differently, though) and #Trumpism. (See my posts with the hashtag #Buchanan.)

@mina

@mina

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#JamesBuchanan

(1/n)

You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanan's #VirginiaSchool:

"...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

@number6
@fosstodon.org

1)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598606864037745

@BlumeEvolution

#Longtermism #TESCREAL
#Gesellschaft #Politik
#Faschismus #Klimakrise
(3c/n)

Die 👉Gefährdung der westlichen Demokratien👈 erfolgt jedoch auch von Innen.

In den #USA findet sie seit mindestens 1965 statt, als #Nobelpreis-Träger #JamesBuchanan die #VirginiaSchool gründete.
👉#Buchanan wollte eine privatwirtschaftliche, regierende Firmen-Elite, völlig frei von öffentlicher Rechenschaft. 1)👈

(NB/OT:
Interessant wäre, inwiefern #ChristianLindner...

1) https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

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...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Institute for New Economic Thinking