Cato Goes Woke
11th October 2022
The Cato Institute has long been one of the premier libertarian ‘think-tanks’ in the country. But apparently things have changed.
A speaker at an event at the “libertarian” Cato Institute says that efforts to maintain or rebuild American manufacturing is nothing more than a “fetish for keeping white males with low education in the powerful positions they are in.” And I really don’t whether this comes from a place of embracing woke racialism (seeing everything in terms of race and class) or just the typical contempt of the think-tank class toward the working class.
But perhaps the real lesson is that no one should ever take the Cato Institute seriously. Video is here. Some of the hot takes are here.
The speaker is the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics – an economic think-tank that champions globalism and is funded by a bunch of transnational corporations.