The right-wing’s basic move is to pretend that the economic institutions they prefer just exist ex nihilo. From that pretension, they then remark that they are merely against government involvement in the economy. Because they pack into the phrase “the economy” all of their preferred government-constructed economic institutions (property, contract, corporations, and so on), this rhetorical move reduces down to the claim that they are against the things they are against. It’s vacuous.
Bundling Economic Institutions
