Sad to say, but the Carney Doctrine is bs. The speech he gave in Davos and what we see in practice are two very different things.

No, this is literally exactly what he said in Davos.

Remember the part about how we can only afford to be generous from strength? His point was that beggars don’t get to influence the systems that govern our world in a meaningful way, i.e. sometimes you have to focus on building yourself up in order to be a force for good.

The parts he is sticking to are the pivot to realism, but most of the rest has already been binned.

Values-based realism has been revealed as just realism wearing a “values” hat to make it palatable to liberals who need some hand holding into a Hobbesian state of chaos and a return to the Standard of Civilization.

The principles in “principled pragmatism” are just more branding. The principles he spoke to, including naming reality, being consistent, building what we claim to believe in have all been more absent by the week. What we’ve seen recently is actually a refusal to name reality, a refusal to be consistent, and a throwing of institutions we claimed to believe in under the bus.

No, again, you are mistaking the path to the top of the mountain as one that always slopes upwards.