Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 199 of Matthew Hennessey’s excellent 2022 book, Visible Hand:

Concerns abound in their [“common-good conservatives'”] essays and tweets for the moral poverty that capitalism in particular is said to engender. Economic freedom, with its emphasis on choice, allegedly draws people away from their own best interests (as nebulously defined by the common-good conservatives). The policy program, if you can call it that, is short on specifics. The most you can say is that it revolves around state action to ensure the common good. On social policy they are traditionalist: pro-life, pro-family, anti-woke. On economics they are dirigiste – that is, they promote government intervention in the private market to support outcomes they call “worker friendly”: pro-planning, pro-redistribution, anti-business. They want an industrial policy, so they can pick winners and protect certain industries from competition. They want power.