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Morris Berman tells us that creating a stable commonwealth that prioritizes social provisioning was never a priority in the plan for America. As we continue to drift through the Greenspan Era into the Trump Era and beyond, the hope for making that a priority or achieving some measure of sustainability have all but faded to oblivion. The policies of the Trump administration—a seemingly random mixture of neoliberalism , nationalism, and cronyism—mostly served the interests of the corporate class with tax cuts and rollbacks on environmental regulations.
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Magnuson, J. (2018). The Crises of the Eighties and the Ascent of the Greenspan Era. In: Financing the Apocalypse. Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04720-7_7
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