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Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they get more. But then you look at the people who are at the top, and you realize they're not the people who have transformed our economy, our society.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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European officials thought that austerity was part of what they called their 'convergence policies,' of trying to bring countries together. Instead, it actually made things worse. There's more inequality within countries and more disparity across countries.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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A less healthy America is not going to be as productive.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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People at the top spend less money than those at the bottom, so when you have redistribution toward the top, aggregate demand goes down. Unless you intervene, you're going to have a weak economy unless something else happens.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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What I argued in 'The Great Divide' is that societies can't function without trust, both politically and economically.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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What's going to happen is that there will be a definite consensus that Europe is not working. The diagnosis will be to shed the currency and keep the rest, or that Europe is not working and a broader rejection - like in the U.K.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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I'm enough of a political junkie to know if you have large numbers of people much worse off, you're going to have consequences.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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I began my career as a physicist. And in the White House, my buddies were the people from the White House office of science and technology policy. But a lot of the people were lawyers. They like winning an argument, but science-based, evidence-based reasoning was just sort of not in their framework.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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The financial sector has so distorted salaries that physicists are getting drawn into the financial sector. All that has led to an undersupply of people committed to the public sector.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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While it was an experiment to bring them together, nothing has divided Europe as much as the euro.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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With my kids, I'm a little sappier than my father may have been.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'
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Joseph Stiglitz

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To someone like me, who has watched trade negotiations closely for more than a quarter-century, it is clear that U.S. trade negotiators got most of what they wanted. The problem was with what they wanted. Their agenda was set, behind closed doors, by corporations.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings and investment.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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Trump assumed office promising to 'drain the swamp' in Washington, D.C. Instead, the swamp has grown wider and deeper.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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When markets fail, as they often do, collective action becomes imperative.
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Joseph Stiglitz

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“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.” 

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There is no royal road to perfection.”
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Frederick Douglass

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There's a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.
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Rick Wilson

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When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.
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Rick Wilson

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As much as progressives hate the Electoral College - and we can argue its flaws all day long - in 2020, the Electoral College is the only game in town. There's not going to be some miracle where it's not the rule book. The winner of the Electoral College is president. Doesn't matter how many popular votes you get.
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Rick Wilson

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Trump has learned over his long career as a lying liar who lies that none of his stories have to be true.
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Rick Wilson

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For Donald Trump, any opposition, either personal, ideological, or political is treason. Anyone who stands in his path betrays the Great Leader. Anyone who fails to take the knee is a traitor.
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Rick Wilson

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Part of the sales pitch for the Trump campaign is their unique, esoteric secret sauce based on a rabid cult following motivated by Facebook, Twitter, and other social media manipulation.
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Rick Wilson

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Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.
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Rick Wilson

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Donald Trump, like many cult leaders, understands the power his words will have over the minds and actions of his followers... but few cult leaders have a pet media infrastructure.
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Rick Wilson

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Richard Nixon is typically considered the modern exemplar of a dark and vindictive president. President Trump would be Nixon minus the keen intellect and work ethic.
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Rick Wilson

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Trump will never, ever do the right or decent thing, and his consultants certainly won't. He will make outrageous, unsupported claims.
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Rick Wilson

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Like all alchemists, Trump seeks to convert dross into gold, to toss a broth of his incompetence, denial, delay, deception, and failure into some supernatural alembic and extract political advantage.
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Rick Wilson

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Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, and others who raced to the microphones at the slightest hint of Obama overstepping the lines were damn quiet as Trump wildly colored outside the lines of any rational version of executive power.
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Rick Wilson

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Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.
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Rick Wilson

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America once used the words 'treason' and 'traitors' only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation's most vital secrets or interests.
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Rick Wilson

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Donald Trump is an idiot and a moron and just a kook of the first order, but he is surrounded by a bunch of guys like me, who are ride-or-die for him. They don't love him ideologically, but they're stuck. And they're very smart. And they're very determined and they will do anything to win.
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Rick Wilson

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Only a fool would believe Trump would draw a sharp, bright line between his personal and family financial interests and the interests of the nation.
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Rick Wilson

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I've written about this before, but the sad truth is this: There are only a handful of Trump true believers in the Senate. The rest are chugging a toxic slurry of cowardice, ambition, and opportunism that has led members of the upper house of a co-equal branch of government to relinquish their power and prerogatives.
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Rick Wilson

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Trump-era name-calling is just as tiresome and juvenile as it is nonsensical.
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Rick Wilson

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Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.
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Rick Wilson

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Be it China, the World Health Organization, the Bavarian Illuminati, or lizard shapeshifters, it's never Trump's responsibility. It's never Trump's fault.
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Rick Wilson

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American populism is no stranger to our political life. From the earliest anti-Federalists to William Jennings Bryan, Huey Long, and George Wallace, and many in between, we've sampled the populist temptation, often in times of national distress and dislocation.
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Rick Wilson

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Crony capitalism on the left and crony capitalism on the right are still crony capitalism.
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Rick Wilson

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The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use them.
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Rick Wilson

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It's become a cliche to stare in mute horror at Donald Trump's endless stream of Twitter vomit, wondering what chthonic god finds pleasure in watching us writhe as Trump brings out the very worst in his followers and new levels of willful ignorance from Republicans determined to see no evil, no matter how in their face that evil is.
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Rick Wilson

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Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to at least some adherence to the Constitution over the social preferences of the moment, and to the constraints on government power that our Founding Fathers so cherished.
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Rick Wilson

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Trump, like any good Stalinist, knows that one death is a tragedy but 100,000 is a statistic.
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Rick Wilson

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For Trump, there's always a dark conspiracy arrayed against him. Someone is always doing him an injustice by not treating him with the required deference.
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Rick Wilson

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I've knocked out any number of Democrats using ads associating them with the brand toxicity of Reid, Pelosi, and Obama, and before that Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, and others.
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Rick Wilson

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Democrats are holistically bad at politics. They don't know how to fight in the way Republicans do.
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Rick Wilson

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