In my most recent column I had a bit of fun with Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, who has ominously warned that President Biden will turn us into Europe.
When I shared Noem’s remarks on social media, some of my correspondents asked whether this meant that we’re about to get good train service and better food.
But Noem’s remarks were part of a long tradition among U.S. conservatives: insisting that Europe is already experiencing the disasters they claim will happen as a result of liberal policies here.
In the past, however, the imagined European dystopia was supposed to be a result of high taxes and generous social benefits, which allegedly destroyed the incentive to work and innovate.
Denmark is one of the happiest nations on the planet, but there are nonetheless a significant number of melancholy Danes, and the country has experienced a rise in right-wing populism.
This similarity, by the way, casts doubt on claims that Biden administration policies, as opposed to pandemic-related disruptions that affected the whole world, are to blame for U.S. inflation.
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In my most recent column I had a bit of fun with Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, who has ominously warned that President Biden will turn us into Europe.
When I shared Noem’s remarks on social media, some of my correspondents asked whether this meant that we’re about to get good train service and better food.
But Noem’s remarks were part of a long tradition among U.S. conservatives: insisting that Europe is already experiencing the disasters they claim will happen as a result of liberal policies here.
In the past, however, the imagined European dystopia was supposed to be a result of high taxes and generous social benefits, which allegedly destroyed the incentive to work and innovate.
Denmark is one of the happiest nations on the planet, but there are nonetheless a significant number of melancholy Danes, and the country has experienced a rise in right-wing populism.
This similarity, by the way, casts doubt on claims that Biden administration policies, as opposed to pandemic-related disruptions that affected the whole world, are to blame for U.S. inflation.
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