Justin Amash: The Career Anti-politician

Rather than use elected office to improve politics, Amash offers commentary while accomplishing nothing.

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Then-Rep. Justin Amash (I., Mich.) departs after a series of votes on Capitol Hill, July 10, 2019.

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Justin Amash is a career politician who doesn’t like politics. It’s a perplexing vocation that voters have already coaxed him out of once. One hopes they will do it again.

His foreign-policy views leave much to be desired, but his economic-policy views are commendable. This isn’t about policy, though. It’s about the wide gap between Amash’s affect and his achievements.

Dominic Pino

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Dominic Pino

Dominic Pino is a former economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the former host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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