More than four decades after its resurrection in the Reagan era, trickle-down economics continues to terrorize Western economic policy like Jason Voorhees stalking the shores of Crystal Lake. Despite substantial evidence questioning its effectiveness and coinciding with periods of economic carnage, this slasher ideology keeps coming back, seemingly indestructible and

The debate started over flags at protests—whether waving the Stars and Stripes at anti-Trump demonstrations was tactically sound or morally bankrupt. But that exchange, like most political arguments these days, quickly spiraled into bigger questions about purity versus pragmatism, and why one side seems to keep winning while the