03/15/2018
Larry Kudlow’s selection as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors by President Trump has met with the orchestrated MSM screeching that greets any Trump move. [Reality-Show President Picks Cable News Talking Head to Be His Economic Adviser, by Jeffrey C. Billman, Indyweek, March 15 2018] But it’s also upset the Dissident Right, for example Occidental Dissent’s very shrewd Hunter Wallace ("Larry Kudlow has opposed economic populism for decades"). However, I think it could be, if not a white pill, perhaps a piebald one.For one thing, one of Trump’s more distressing habits is that he’s not been good at rewarding his early supporters. Maybe Kris Kobach will be next!
Beyond that … I've known Larry for nearly four decades and like him: he’s a genuinely nice and kind man. He is both extraordinarily articulate and a phenomenally quick study — he parlayed a 1969 University of Rochester history degree (his only degree) into a position as a leading supply-side economics spokesman in the Reagan Administration in just over ten years.
What’s less widely recognized is Larry’s flexibility: the same period saw him evolve, or perhaps more accurately shape-shift, from being a member of Students for A Democratic Society, the AntiFa of its day. And his boldness: he gambled by supporting Trump because of his tax plan, despite the intense Trump Derangement Syndrome raging throughout Conservatism Inc., and it paid off.
Larry, who is a Catholic convert, certainly has the ancestral Jewish fondness for immigration and he’s certainly toed the supply-side line on free trade etc., which some of them extend to immigration. That’s why this appointment could be a black pill.
But by accepting it, Kudlow has shown that he’s prepared to compromise on tariffs, perhaps because tax cuts were always more important to him. At the direction of a strong President, no-one is better equipped to emerge as a leading spokesman for immigration patriotism, particularly as he familiarizes himself with the powerful arguments and his ingenious mind sees the polemical opportunities.
Black pill, white pill — let’s settle for a piebald pill. As always, everything depends on Trump.
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