Now prepare for Sowell to be trashed for not falling in line and daring to express doubts about Trump.
“Thought provoking article and I share many of the concerns stated in it.
Now prepare for Sowell to be trashed for not falling in line and daring to express doubts about Trump.”
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Sowell is brilliant, but he is wrong. I have many of his books (”Inside American Education” was a favorite.) He is a scholar, and a gentleman. I doubt he has ever raised his voice in his life.
But Sowell has written eloquently, year after year, about the problems. And conservatives laud him, and push his books. And things get worse because the conservatives Sowell loves have never even attempted to implement his policies. They instead have largely run from them.
I’m sure Trump is offensive and seems abrasive to a man like Sowell.
So be it. But Sowell makes the same mistake others make—they speak down to Trump supporters, and treat them as angry uneducated children, just blindly lashing out. Sowell has no corner on the market when it comes to that, of course, but neither does he necessarily have any special understanding as to who would make a good president, and who would not. I also remember that Jimmy Carter was touted by many as the smartest man ever to sit in the oval office, and Reagan as a dangerous dunce.