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Yes. American infrastructure has explicitly been deployed time and time again as stimulus spending to shore up the American economy. Nothing in their argument is novel.

What these folks are quietly calling for is Conservatism. What is novel is wrapping conservatism in new urbanism psudoprogressive language.

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Conservatism. There's a word that's lost all meaning over the past several years.

"Fiscal Conservatism"? Maybe. But only if we go back to an older definition of "fiscal conservatism", which is closely in line with "financial sustainability". But honestly, many people calling themselves "Conservative" these days care not a single whit about financial sustainability, at least when it comes to the public sector.

The author and the book pretty clearly lay out what they mean by conservatism and yes it's aligned with fiscal conservatism.

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