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For Americans living through the recent months of crisis, some of the latest economic data may come as a surprise. Gross Domestic Product (G.D.P.) over the past six months remained far above what we could have achieved even a decade ago. Investors have driven key stock indexes back above their February peaks. But rarely have such economic indicators been so entirely beside the point. Seriously: Who cares?
What good does G.D.P. do, if people we love are falling seriously ill and dying in unprecedented numbers; if the rhythms of daily life vital to our happiness have gone haywire and our social connections have atrophied?
Typically shielded from such problems, the country’s professional class now finds itself experiencing a taste of the insecurity and anxiety that the working class has felt for decades: The dissolution of community; the suddenly prohibitive distances separating friends and family; the anger at experts selling ineffective, poorly planned schooling as adequate to their children’s needs.
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Where Do Republicans Go From Here?
David Brooks features American Compass and executive director Oren Cass leading efforts to “push the G.O.P. in a post-Trump direction.”
This New Think Tank Wants To Reform Conservatism. Republicans Ignore It at Their Peril.
;Columnist Henry Olsen describes American Compass as a “tool with which future conservative leaders can guide the American ship of state.”
The Rich Get Richer, Middle Class Shrinks, and Conservatives Must Act
American Compass research director Wells King discusses the state of economic inequality in the United States and how conservatives should respond.
