If the view from the “centre-left bubble” is one that takes the author of the otherwise competent piece to task for describing and acknowledging the problem without offering any solutions except the implied one of “gubmint bad, make go bye-bye” (or ones proposed for more than a decade by liberals and progressives, offered without credit) then I’m happy to reside in it.
The name of the magazine is “The American Conservative”, so they’ve chosen the label. It’s one of the better conservative media outlets in the U.S. today, a small oasis of something approaching Eisenhower-style views in a howling wasteland of extremism and bigotry. However, as this article shows, its writers are often hobbled by certain core assumptions (e.g. laissez faire as the default solution for any problem; progressives can never come up with solutions).
