I may be wrong that he is a leftist turd at worst, but his is pretty obviously a Never-Trumper at best.
I am going to take the word of people like Larry Elder with his eight books and Thomas Sowell’s 30 plus books and even the novice Candace Owen’s single book on this subject.
They are spot on, and have the bonifides to back it up. This guy doesn’t like Trump, that is plain, and if so, at this time, I don’t have much use for him.
Just my opinion, you may feel differently.
“but his is pretty obviously a Never-Trumper at best.”
If you are going to be wrong, you might as well be wrong all the way.
Gottfried and his good friend Sam Francis were calling for an America first populism for years, and Trump is the real world expression of their writing. They were voices in the wilderness battling the neoconservative globalism that had taken over the GOP after Reagan left office. They were Trump before there was a Trump. There is little doubt that Trump was influenced by them, Francis in particular.
“I am going to take the word of people like Larry Elder with his eight books and Thomas Sowell’s 30 plus books and even the novice Candace Owen’s single book on this subject.”
Sowell is the only scholar among the three. His specialty is economics, 21 of his books being on the subject. I don’t know of any book of his that deals with the same subject matter as Gottfried. He did write an excellent book on Marxism, which once was a great interest of his.
Larry Elder is a libertarian lawyer whom Dennis Prager took under his wing. Fine if you like libertarian thought. He’s not a historian and relying on him to be one is like relying on any other talk show host.
Candace Owens is too young to know much of anything that happened before Bush junior. She repeated some nonsense about Lyndon Johnson which anyone who actually remembers LBJ would have recognized as idiocy. She’s not stupid but some of her sources certainly are.