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Another deflection, how dull. What I just posted on the thread you linked to:

Alexander Mercouris is a disbarred lawyer. He is citing Jack Rasmus as his well known expert.

When anyone fails to hold back laughing when claiming the expert is one of the best experts, that's never a good sign. More so when the person using the expert has no credibility.

Just who is Jack Rasmus and what does he believe?

Let's look at what he said about the 2020 election: How Could 70 Million Still Have Voted for Trump? November 7, 2020:

Media pundits and others have been deeply perplexed as to why so many Americans in this election–70 million in fact– nonetheless voted for Trump. But it’s not all that difficult to understand. There are 3 major explanations: One economic. One health. And the third, and most important, a matter of culture and racism manipulated by clever politicians for the past quarter century at least.
...This fear is the foundation of his—and their—white nationalism which is really a form of racism. So too is their anti-immigration. It is anti-immigration directed against people of color–whether latinos, blacks, muslims or whomever. White European heritage, small town, rural, evangelical, small business ‘heartland’ of the south & midwest America sees ‘their America’ disappearing or at least having to share more equally with people of color America. The latter are now almost equal in population to White Europeans but are not equal politically or economically. They are knocking on the door and want in. They want their equal share.
...Pit the one against the other, while they–those of wealth and power–continue to ‘pick the pockets’ of both. That was, and remains, Trump’s strategy in a nutshell. It’s also the strategy of his wealthy backers. It’s the age old American ruling class racism ‘shell game’. Just now in the form of ‘old wine in new bottles’, as they saying goes. ‘America First’ means in effect White America of his political base comes first.

This was before the 2020 steal was obvious to anyone who could download the vote spreadsheets, perform basic Excel operations and find funny numbers. To Rasmus, Trump is just perpetuating the same problems of rich and powerful versus everyone else, appealing to his voter's inherent racism.

I don't think Mercouris is citing a conservative intellectual icon like Thomas Sowell here.