True Carneyism has never been tried. When Canadian PM Carney traveled to Davos to declare a "rupture" in the old order (admitting this old order was never great to begin with) he told us that there was no going back from Trumpism. The only way out of Trumpism was *through*:
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This is easy to say, but hard to do. If the old order is over, then we will never again be able to trust America to serve as the world's cop, banker, ISP, IT department and consumer of first resort.
We can't trust Americans to buy the things we make:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/16/k-shaped-recovery/#disenshittification-nations
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Pluralistic: America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity (16 Dec 2025)