New Yorker Hypes Jackson's Old Economics
February 23, 2026·21 days ago·via The New Yorker
The New Yorker revives Jesse Jackson's outdated economic platform as "timeless," pushing big-government redistribution and intervention that failed spectacularly in the '80s. Jackson's playbook- heavy on subsidies, race-based policies, and anti-free-market rhetoric- ignores how Trump-era deregulation unleashed real growth for all Americans, not just cronies. This nostalgia trip from elite media reeks of desperation to counter booming conservative economics with socialist relics. Read more about this...