“Conservatives like Sowell spent their lives studying conservative principles from a historical perspective.”
Sort of. Thomas Sowell actually started out as a Marxist.
“How and why had I changed from a young leftist to someone with my present views, which are essentially in favor of free markets and traditional values? In a sense, it was not so much a change in underlying philosophy, as in my vision of how human beings operate.
“Back in the days when I was a Marxist, my primary concern was that ordinary people deserved better, and that elites were walking all over them. That is still my primary concern, but the passing decades have taught me that political elites and cultural elites are doing far more damage than the market elites could ever get away with doing. ...:
http://capitalismmagazine.com/2002/01/from-marxism-to-the-market/
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.