“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.
On the party that is the party of racism and slavery, this “academic” is wrong. I guess it is his ox that is gored, that of the “Southern Man” he feels is being slighted in some way.
The truth hurts.
Some more than others.