Standing Tall: Why Holness’s Revisionism Fails Michael Manley’s Legacy
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s rhetoric surrounding the 1970s administration of Michael Manley relies on a convenient strategy: judging a transformative era of social empowerment purely through a modern macroeconomic lens. Facing public scrutiny over his own administration’s decade-long record, Holness’s political commentary frequently cherry-picks fiscal contraction metrics while framing democratic socialism as an “ideological misadventure”…