Marshall Steinbaum history of public land agencies
Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 (@Econ_Marshall): Just listened to this great podcast episode from a few months back where @ErikLoomis interviews Andrew Sowards on the history of public land agencies. Recommended, especially if you want an informed historical take on “a liberalism that builds.” https://www.stitcher.com/show/lawyers-guns-money/episode/lgm-podcast-the-public-lands-203310203
The reaction against New Deal-era federal agencies developing the public lands was laws that enlarged the set of stakeholders consulted. That reflects the environmentalists’ eventual successful alliance with anti-New-Deal conservatives.
Everyone gets a say, meaning government does nothing. This is what destroyed the New Deal’s version of A Liberalism That Builds, but now we have the Hewlett-funded effort to revive the coalition that destroyed the New Deal by… abrogating labor & environmental standards?
It doesn’t make any sense, and it certainly won’t work. It’s the kind of thing that you’d come up with in a think tank conference room to “bring everyone together,” except, you know, actual people.