Of course you can debate the difference at the margin ad nauseam, something the authors are doing more authoritatively than you and I could on every single podcast on the planet, trying hard to differentiate themselves from libertarians that preceded them decades ago. I remain unconvinced.
Does anybody ever advocate economic decline?
But that was not the main point: there is a difference in basing your ideology on top of that pillar and betting the farm on it ala Abundance vs. just thinking economic growth is a nice to have blessing.
All of MAGA's most core policies are fundamentally degrowth. Tariffs, cancelling the CHIPS act, cutting funding for medical research, pushing expensive fossil fuels like coal above cheaper renewables or even natural gas, pushing resource extraction and commodity manufacturing and agriculture at the expense of advanced manufacturing.
The outcome of all of those policies will be degrowth, even if Trump isn't using that rhetoric.
Fucking everyone does. That's like saying my moral code is the same as Ted Cruz's because we both think murder is wrong.
Trump wants to throw out most environmental laws and drill baby drill, Ezra wants to prune the ones that prevent us from actually saving the environment, which he highly values. These are worlds apart, you can't just toss them both in the "deregulation" category and call it a day.
No. Many people don't. Lots more don't have it as a priority. Ted Kaczynski and all the climate-change crowd come to mind.
Also you conveniently deleted my first word "deregulation."
Pointing to the unibomber is hardly a great way to prove the position is mainstream.
I started with your latter point because it was just so absurd. I didn't ignore "deregulation", that was what the entire rest of my comment was about.
As a non sequitur only tangentially related to the discussion, Kaczynski is dead.