#HaroldMeyerson on #JonathanChait https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-12-why-joe-biden-moved-center-economic-progressivism/ ht @ddayen
Text: Chait doesn't trouble himself to say which of the actions that these lefties are promoting amount to bad policy and are politically damaging to boot. The push to regulate cryptocurrencies? The lawsuits to break up the monopolies that stifle competition? The move to enable the 20 percent of American workers who are bound by noncompete agreements that keep them from seeking different jobs? The efforts to enable workers to join unions without fear of being fired? The enforcement of trade laws preventing sham Mexican unions? The ruling that companies that break U.S. labor laws during union elections must then recognize the union? None of this, and in fact no action outside of legislation-which Congress drives as much as the president-is mentioned at all. Without getting into, or even near, specifics, Chait sees unnamed, undiscussed Biden officials' tenures as something to be repudiated.