On Friday, I listened to a brief lecture on the unhappy history of Detroit, told from the familiar anti-capitalist point of view: Because international trade is a merciless race to the bottom, the Detroit-based automobile industry could not compete with foreign rivals absent some degree of intervention from the U.S. government. Instead, the U.S. government pursued free-market policies, which resulted in the municipal ruination of Detroit and the impoverishment of its people. That didn't come from the ghost of Howard Zinn. It came from Sean Hannity.
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