Analysis: Stephen Moore wasn’t done in by his terrible economic ideas but by old-fashioned oppo. It should have been the other way around
It turns out that Stephen Moore has a pretty awful sense of humor. His jokes are lame, tasteless, and told with the awkwardness of a guy who really doesn’t get jokes. He’s also prone to say idiotic things about women, race, sports and economics.
There were, of course, people, and not just among Democrats, waving warning flags. Conservative economist Greg Mankiw wrote that “Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job ... It is time for Senators to do their job. Mr. Moore should not be confirmed.”
But these doubts about his qualifications did not seem to dent his support. Just a few weeks ago, 105 economists and conservative activists signed an open letter backing Moore. Even Trump critics seemed willing to go along. Sasse argued that the fact that orthodox economists were criticizing Moore was actually a sign in his favor.
He proposed one exception to his rule: Women would be allowed to participate, he wrote, “if and only if, they look like Bonnie Bernstein. The fact that Bonnie knows nothing about basketball is entirely irrelevant.”" “So, you know, that, that is a joke that I always made about, you know, Obama lives in, you know, the president lives in public housing,” he says. “But I didn’t mean it like a black person did.” TheBut some of his other ideas were apparently more serious. In 2014, he argued that women earning more than men “could be disruptive to family stability.” He also expressed opposition to child labor laws, calling his position radical. “I’d get rid of a lot of these child labor laws,” he said.
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