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Joe Biden has done little more than spin the revolving door from the private sector to rebuild the neoliberal technocrat pool from the Clinton & Obama years. The latest name to emerge, Cass Sunstein, epitomizes everything that’s wrong with this trend http://therevolvingdoorproject.org/progressives-vehemently-object-to-cass-sunsteins-plans-to-return-to-government/
Sunstein, a dyed in the wool technocrat, has been a reliable go-to establishment legal scholar for so long that if you look up ‘wonk’ in the dictionary you’ll likely see his picture https://newrepublic.com/article/154236/sameness-cass-sunstein
He not only embraced of the father of neoliberalism, Friedrich Hayek, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3714750 Sunstein did so in such a way leaves no room for doubt that he believes wholeheartedly in ‘managed democracy’ https://www.salon.com/2007/11/07/sunstein/
In Sunstein’s case, ‘managed democracy’ takes on an especially smarmy tone. He seems to believe in dumbing it down in order to herd the proles toward outcomes desired by the elites https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/books/simpler-and-simple.html
By mixing legal concepts with behavioral economics, Sunstein perfected his own brand of DoubleSpeak. Writing opinions for outlets like Bloomberg, his purpose is not to inform and persuade — it is to use his intellectual gravitas to create an ‘appeal to authority’ logical fallacy
Of course Sunstein used this aura of reliability to assist with the Democratic Party’s new McCarthyism https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2017-10-19/russia-is-using-marxist-strategies-and-so-is-trump
RussiaGate was the perfect outlet for Sunstein https://twitter.com/markamesexiled/status/921142726850162688
Sunstein “is basically a University of Chicago theorist who tries, and fails, to reconcile free-market ideology with tepid liberalism” https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/red-alert-the-return-of-cass-sunstein/
