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Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump by Matt K. Lewis

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“invisible hand,” a metaphor that suggested that competition and the pursuit of self-interest organically leads to salutary social benefits.

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“every government intervention in the marketplace tends to reduce wealth and the overall standard of living.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“the most important factor in America’s economic future—in raising everyone’s standard of living—is not land, or money, or computers; it’s human talent.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects.”40 Changes”
― Timothy Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law

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“Slower growth and the increasing perception that rewards are handed out by government on the basis of political pull, rather than earned in the competitive marketplace, encourage polarization and social conflict.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“Economic freedom means that people are free to produce and to exchange with others.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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