The Realignment Ep. 25: Oren Cass, Introducing American Compass

Oren Cass served as former domestic policy director for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He joins The Realignment to launch American Compass, his new organization that’s arguing for a new conservative approach to economics.

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[yourelawyered]

This is the kind of conservative thinking I could easily vote for! No leftist identity politics and no libertarian economic policy.

[matthewgoodman]

I REALLY hope Oren, Saagar, and Marshal become more mainline.

[JeffJones]

I would love to see this guy go on a show like David Pakman or Majority Report. I think the discussions would be really interesting!

[edmaloney]

7m30s - We took a whole massive segment of our economy that was particularly suited to providing stable well-paid employment to less-educated workers and said, 'we just don't need that.'

[kingrhino]

"Markets work great for some things but not so great for others." This nuance has been lost for way too long,

[aidamatokko]

All for families and communities, being jobs back to America.

[jodada]

I wonder how much business regulations, employer regulations, hiring regulations, etc has had on manufacturing and the production capacity.

From my knowledge the capital investment in productivity has increased output because of technology

Federal Reserve policy, and tax incentives it has created
Low interest rates discourages savings
Gov education is great like public schools but allow for school choice for parents so we can get rid of the nonsense taught in these schools etc

[roya]

not digging the brown shoe weird sock trend

[CarsonMerkwan]

This guy needs Milton Friedman in his life.