Opinions | Twilight of the economists? More like twilight of the neoliberals. Daniel Drezner © Amr Alfiky/Pool/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Cecilia Rouse, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, listens at a weekly economic briefing at the White House last week. This is a column about the possible decline of economists in the marketplace of ideas, so it seems fitting to start it by talking about a political scientist. Yale University’s Stephen Skowronek has explained the Trump presidency better than other theories (including mine). His theory places Donald Trump in the “disjunctive presidency” bin, the same category as John Quincy Adams and Jimmy Carter: presidents who take office as the exhausted heir of a bankrupt political ideology. These presidencies, by performing so badly, are usually followed by “transformative presidencies” that lead the country in a decidedly different direction.
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If there is one thing about politics that unites Americans these days, it is their contempt for political parties and partisanship. More Americans today identify as independents than with either of the two major political parties. Citizens boast that they “vote for the person, not for the party,” and denounce fellow citizens or representatives who blindly toe the party line. Party leaders in Congress are held in disrepute, criticized by one side for being too soft and condemned by the other for being too partisan. Insurgent, outsider candidates are increasingly successful against those who are perceived as “the establishment.” Americans are bipartisan in their condemnation of partisanship.