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Some conservatives are sidelining their familiar dogmas about free trade, small government and the free market and moving instead to use the formerly dreaded “administrative state” to impose “order” and virtue on Silicon Valley technocratic elites, “radical lunatics” and other enemies within.

Some conservatives are sidelining their familiar dogmas about free trade, small government and the free market and moving instead to use the formerly dreaded "administrative state" to impose "order" and virtue on Silicon Valley technocratic elites, "radical lunatics" and other enemies within.

Yet with his centrist politics and solid technocratic credentials, his candidacy offered reassuring competence and the prospect of continuing the impressive economic progress that Ouattara has piloted since 2011.

There is literally no positive spin available here for those who advocate the pseudo-Leninist MAGAphile vision of a far-right populist upsurge that will sweep away the failing remnants of liberal democracy and replace it with … well, something else, something more masculine but also more technocratic and that involves what we might generously call a contested notion of “freedom.”

But for a very long time, I think public health has become technocratic and it has become cowardly, and there are big fights that still need to be won.