America's culture wars distract from what's happening beneath them | Gary Gerstle

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Such families, guided by faith in God, would inculcate moral virtue in its members and prepare the next generation for the rigors of free market life.
56% : Their aides jointly engineered the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which did more than any other piece of legislation in the 1980s and 1990s to free the most dynamic sector of the US economy from government regulation.
50% : That order is now on the wane, its once unassailable principles of free trade, free markets, and the free movement of people now disputed on a daily basis.
49% : Since neoliberalism frowned upon government regulation of private behavior, some other institution had to provide it.
48% : These values were necessary, this moral perspective argued, to gird individuals against market excess - accumulating debt by buying more than one could afford and indulging appetites for sex, drugs, alcohol, and other whims that free markets could be construed as sanctioning.
46% : Trump and Bernie Sanders have both worked to turn the country away from free trade and toward a protectionist future promising better jobs and higher wages.
40% : The neoliberal order that triumphed in America in the 1990s prized free trade and the free movement of capital, information, and people.
40% : They both supported the World Trade Organization, which debuted in 1995 to turbocharge a global regime of free trade.
39% : It celebrated deregulation as an economic good that resulted when governments could no longer interfere with the operation of markets.

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