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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Every liberal anywhere in the world, who still thinks that in two short years we just can go back to business as usual, should read this, and then re-read it. They are somewhat like people in Eastern Europe who still yearn for the old communist days. Or the Brexit people who yearned for the halcyon days of Rule Brittania.
For better or worse, those days are gone and clinging to it, will only make things worse.