“Theodore Roosevelt understood that our republic was a republic of the common person. This is what made it a republic of liberty. Now we must recall his example and make it so again.” AmericaFreedomLibertyIndividualityRepublicJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechTheodore RooseveltCommon Person Author:Josh Hawley
“Every society had its elites, of course: its wealthy, well-educated, upwardly mobile types. Machiavelli, a republican himself, called them the grandi. The trick to preserving a republic was not to allow them to predominate as a class, to amass power at the expense of their fellows. Or more precisely: the key was not to allow them to amass power at the expense of the common man.” AmericaWealthPowerSocietyRepublicElitesCommon ManJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“This first generation of corporate barons left a lasting, if dubious, legacy: they made America more hierarchical, with new divisions between management and labor, between a professional class and everyday workers. They made the economy more centralized, consolidating power into a few mega-companies and their owners; they made it more globalized, keyed to international capital and trade. They diminished the voice of the ordinary citizen in society and politics in favor of educated, professionalized elites. In short, they gave America an entirely new political economy, what some historians have called corporate liberalism.” AmericaPoliticsCorruptionDivisionCorporatismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechRobber Barons Author:Josh Hawley
“Our republic has never been more hierarchical, more riven by class, more managed by an elite than it is today.” TruthAmericaPoliticsFreedomDivisionElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“Roosevelt believed that liberty had more to it than the right to be let alone. It was the right to have a say in one’s nation, to help shape the future of the community one called home, to exercise the power and mastery of a citizen.” AmericaPoliticsFreedomLibertyPowerRightsNationJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechTeddy Roosevelt Author:Josh Hawley
“That sturdy American yeoman, the common man, was to be swept aside as the dominant force in American life and replaced by the enlightened, sophisticated, corporate aristocracy. America would become a corporate republic.” AmericaPoliticsCorruptionCorporateRepublicElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“Antitrust has become a legal backwater in recent decades. But the curse of bigness is back, and antitrust enforcement must come back with it, updated to perform its original, republican function: protecting the independence of the American people from oligarchic control.” AmericaPoliticsFreedomLaw EnforcementAntitrustJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechMonopolies Author:Josh Hawley