PODCAST: Hexapodia LIX: DeLong Smackdown Watch: China Edition

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Key Insights:

  1. Someone is wrong on the internet! Specifically Brad… He needs to shape up and scrub his brain…

  2. Back in the 2000s, Brad argued that the U.S. should over the next few generations try to pass the baton of world leadership to a prosperous, democratic, liberal China…

  3. Back in the 2000s, Noah thought that Brad was wrong—he looked at the Chinese Communist Party, and he thought: communist parties do not do “coëxistence”…

  4. Noah understands people with a limitless authoritarian desire for power—people like Trump, Xi, Putin, and in the reverse Abe—and the systems that nurture and promote them…

  5. Why did Brad go wrong? Excessive reliance in the deep structures of his brain on the now 60-year-old Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World.

  6. Why did Brad go wrong? A failure to understand Lenin’s party of a new type as a bureaucratic-cultural organization…

  7. Suggestions for what Brad DeLong should earn during his forthcoming stint in the reëducation camp are welcome…

  8. &, as always, Hexapodia…

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