If you
had to develop a simple rubric for ex ante rating political candidates’
priorities and policies as reflected in their campaign platforms/agendas, what
might that look like?
What I
would most like to see is an awareness of the capacity for government to do
damage: to intervene overseas in ways that have bad consequences; to have
programs corrupted by special interests; and to undertake new initiatives
without addressing the failures and mismanagement of older programs. Also, I
really wish we had a candidate who had managed an organization larger than a
Senate staff. Dwight Eisenhower is the only President of the past hundred years
who I think appreciated the strengths and weaknesses of large organizations.
-Arnold Kling, from here
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