Let Detroit Go Bankrupt (2008)(nytimes.com) |
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt (2008)(nytimes.com) |
> IF General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye. It won’t go overnight, but its demise will be virtually guaranteed.
Tesla hadn't become a thing then, I suppose.
But the flip-flop didn't work.
Reality has a knack at making ideologies look pathetic.
Mitt Romney, the author of this op-ed, went on to be the republican nominee in 2012. By then this had proven to be a very bad take.
I don't know that he ever really had much chance against an incumbent Obama, but I think this alone would have lost him Michigan... Romney was born there and his father was governer of Michigan so this came off as a betrayal. In any case, this was a good talking point if you wanted to argue he had a lack of vision.