Arnold Kling cites Tyler Cowen’s Law that no political party can be mass-captured by the intelligent and brought around to sanity:
There are passionate Republicans and passionate Democrats. But I agree with Tyler Cowen that neither party is likely to seem attractive. I can give a number of examples that for me illustrate Tyler Cowen’s law. These are policies that neither party is likely to endorse, even though to me they make sense.
- a trade policy of unilateral disarmament
- surrender in the drug war
- separation of family and state
- creating an agency to audit the Department of Homeland Security