Objectivist States of America

Trump is economically liberal?!
Mind = blown.

Well, liberal can mean either "laissiez faire"(ie. the usage in "neoliberal"), or "mildly social democrat"(ie. the usage in "Those goddam liberals and their job-killing tax increases"). I'm not sure what Ocotsteel meant.

Going by wiki, Trump seems to fit the neo-liberal label most closely, he's for lowering taxes and deregulating everything. But he also favours a limited amount of economic protectionism, which puts him a bit in the camp of the second, more interventionist meaning.
 
Rumsfeldia is the closest you'll get, and it's not plausible in any regard. So you might be out of luck.

Rumsfelida asks "What if the Republicans in in 80s implemented the policies demanded by modern Tea Partiers?" and shows the sort of authoritarianism that would be needed to implement said policies.
 
Well, liberal can mean either "laissiez faire"(ie. the usage in "neoliberal"), or "mildly social democrat"(ie. the usage in "Those goddam liberals and their job-killing tax increases"). I'm not sure what Ocotsteel meant.

Going by wiki, Trump seems to fit the neo-liberal label most closely, he's for lowering taxes and deregulating everything. But he also favours a limited amount of economic protectionism, which puts him a bit in the camp of the second, more interventionist meaning.

Thought so. So he's firmly in the 'Stay the hell out, Government!' camp.
 

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Rumsfelida asks "What if the Republicans in in 80s implemented the policies demanded by modern Tea Partiers?" and shows the sort of authoritarianism that would be needed to implement said policies.

That was the intent, yes. What it did was try to turn a country into a warmongering and Christian fundamentalist version of Rapture, to say nothing of the many other implausibilities present (there's a Chinese Caliphate for fuck's sake!).
 
That was the intent, yes. What it did was try to turn a country into a warmongering and Christian fundamentalist version of Rapture, to say nothing of the many other implausibilities present (there's a Chinese Caliphate for fuck's sake!).

At least he had some on the Right actually opposing Rumsfeld, as opposed to making them all go hive-mind and support his insanity.
 
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