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It’s funny, because they are often fans of Bastiat and the lesson of the seen and the unseen as it pertains to narrow economic arguments. But if they applied this epistemic lesson more broadly, they might be a little more modest in their pronouncements about the arc of liberal democracy being a complete failure, and maybe consider the unseen — in the form of their complete lack of imagination and counterfactual reasoning — might be leading them somewhat astray.
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