Giving America the Business 0
David Atkins reminds us that one of the articles of faith of the American conservative movement is that government should be run like a business. It is, natch, fallacious from the git-go, as government is not a business producing product for profit; it is–or should be–a service for the protection, benefit, and well-being of the polity.
Atkins suggests that Donald Trump’s you-can-hardly-call-it handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is a textbook example of what happens when you “run the government like a business” (and, even worse, like a Trump business). Here’s a bit:
Like so much of modern American business culture, the ethic here is short-sighted and self-serving at best, and cruel, callous, and malevolent at worst.
Do read the rest.
