Thomas J DiLorenzo makes the marvelous point that statism exists in both the left wing and the right wing. The Republican Party was formed from the ashes of the Whig Party. DiLorenzo outlines a legacy that was never abandoned throughout the subsequent history of the R Party.
R partisans claim small-gov, capitalism, and property rights as their agenda's primary preferences despite its history of promoting exactly the opposite, ever-bigger-gov, crony capitalism, and gov-enforced serfdom, as largessely visible from all the recent decades they've held either the congressional or presidential political power. Ongoing history of R-ism has not shown respect for individuals but of central mercantilist control of everything.
When people are only allowed to rent, not own, anything, how many people can succeed without rent seeking?
R partisans claim small-gov, capitalism, and property rights as their agenda's primary preferences despite its history of promoting exactly the opposite, ever-bigger-gov, crony capitalism, and gov-enforced serfdom, as largessely visible from all the recent decades they've held either the congressional or presidential political power. Ongoing history of R-ism has not shown respect for individuals but of central mercantilist control of everything.
When people are only allowed to rent, not own, anything, how many people can succeed without rent seeking?