In Defense Of Scott Walker's Crisis Exploitation
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightWell, Klein's attempt to demonstrate that conservatives have a particular tendency to exploit crises was fatally flawed, as I argued in a 2007 review.I agree that Scott Walker and his allies have displayed relentless intellectual dishonesty in their robotic insistence on pretending their argument centers around the budget and refuses to acknowledge that Democrats and unions have accepted austerity budget cuts. But we need to disaggregate a few concepts here. Taking power during a crisis, and usi...