Posted on 09/29/2016 10:24:11 AM PDT by V K Lee
Thomas Sowell, the legendary conservative economist and Hoover Institution fellow, announced on this morning's Ben Shapiro Show that "even though Donald Trump has no coherent vision that looks that promising," he will "vote against Hillary Clinton" in November.
Sowell has been a vocal critic of Donald Trump throughout and beyond the GOP primaries, and his decision centers around the enduring legacy of the next president's Supreme Court appointments, which he believes have the potential to subvert constitutional law and undermine specifically the First and Second Amendments. Here is the full text of Sowell's comments:
Well, my preference would be to leave the office vacant for four years and to wait for better things than 2016. Unfortunately that's not one of the options that we have. I think it's going to be dangerous and not merely bad if either of them becomes president. The question is, where's the danger greatest and, more importantly, most long-lasting? And I think that even though Donald Trump has no coherent vision that looks that promising, Hillary Clinton does have a vision, and it's a world in which she can, by determining who's on the next Supreme Court--for the next 50 years law in America can be undermined. The First and Second Amendments we can write off if she's allowed to put a majority on that court. And so long after, whether it's Clinton or Trump, long after they leave office, the people they put on the Supreme Court will be a legacy for the next generation and perhaps put an end to constitutional law in this country. And on that basis, I would vote against Hillary Clinton.
Breaking news? Really?
But then half the things on breaking are hardly urgent.
Does lil Billie Krystal know about this?
But he did not say that.
Thanks for the link. I didn’t know Sowell was ever anything but a conservative. Makes his case even stronger because it is so well-thought.
Glad he is on board with Trump. Sowell is the kind of guy who causes many conservatives to reconsider their positions if they disagree with him. This will sway some of the holdouts.
“People like to talk about Sowell’s pedigree, he has written many books, but what has he done that is useful?”
Useful in what fashion? You could also say that people like to talk about Russell Kirk and his many books ‘but what has he done that is useful?’.
Other than launching the modern conservative movement that ended up electing Ronald Reagan and changing history, probably not much. At least not much that you can easily point to. Intellectual pursuits are often like that.
Now I don’t think I’d equate Thomas Sowell’s impact with Russell Kirk but Sowell isn’t insignificant either. The majority of people running around calling themselves conservatives probably couldn’t tell you who Russell Kirk is. That doesn’t diminish Kirk’s impact on American politics. Something similar goes for Sowell.
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