It was easy, initially, to dismiss Andrew Yang as a joke. When he first entered the primary, the startup guy-turned-presidential candidate’s most distinguishing qualities seemed to be his almost pathological aversion to wearing ties and a belief that giving all Americans over the age of 18 a Universal Basic Income, what he called his “Freedom Dividend,” would prepare us for a looming economic collapse driven by robots and automation. (Yang himself often sums up his presidential run like this: “There’s an Asian man running for president who wants to give everyone $1,000 a month.”)
by Peter Beinart titled “Why Andrew Yang Matters” described him approvingly as a modern-day Ross Perot, another outsider candidate who believes that the main ills facing America were purely about economics. This is an odd position to embrace at a time when our president has embraced full-on white supremacy, yet Yang is a true believer. “How did Donald Trump become our president in 2016?” Yangthe crowd at a rally in New York City in May. The answer is, of course, simple math.
of what she called his “marked incapacity for anger,” in contrast, I can only assume, to candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. She added, without exactly explaining why: “And the frontrunners would be smart to pay attention.”But we don’t actually need Ross Perot re-invented for 2019 as a tech bro.
every time he cracks stale jokes about being Asian, like he did during the last presidential debate in Asked first by an audience member who had been present during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville what he would do to combat white nationalism, he responded that the key to ending the “tribalism that’s tearing this country apart” would be solved “by getting the economic boot off of people’s throats”—in other words, by his Freedom Dividend. Here is a man, I thought, who really doesn’t get it.
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