By Matt Stoller
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710
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I want to be able to find it again and again.
“This mix of central planning and private monopoly may sound odd, but it is the intellectual underpinning of both the Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act. Although the details of both policies are influenced by a certain amount of happenstance and political give-and-take, both policies deliver social benefits through heavily concentrated private actors, which could be seen as a private form of central planning. And both laws went through committees chaired by members first elected in 1974.”
The origins of KLUDGE.
Also interesting on the Republican reformicon side, by Phillip Longman…
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novemberdecember-2016/how-to-make-conservatism-great-again/
