Maybe Dr Sowell took a lot of heat from yesterday’s column/Part I. He’s come around, somewhat, with Part II.
Maybe he’ll write a Part III and be back on the right track, and back to his self :)
He has written these artfully as a pair. He has the main line thinking from part one that the great conservative Sowell has come to their aid. In part two, he damns them with the subtitle to Part II stating, “GOP Leaders ignore his appeal at GOP’s own peril.”
Sowell is nothing if not briliant and a tremendous communicator. He is showing the peril of the division and to get the old guard’s absolute and full attention, he ran part one first which showed the new turk’s shortcomings and discribed the situation and peril of the division.
Now, with the old gaurds avid attention, he damns them for ineffectiveness in the first place showing the need for Cruz and others of that faction’s actions.
In two parts, he gets their absolute and full attention to the weakness of the division and demands, by citing Hitler, that it has to be done without fail.
He is telling all of us on the right/conservative side of the spectrum to JOIN OR DIE.
He may have backtracked a bit, but his use of the words "however unjustified" suggest that he intends to give no quarter to Ted Cruz in his war against the establishment.
It is clear that Sowell would like the GOP to be more like Ted Cruz but he doesn't want anyone to actually be like Ted Cruz. Such incongruity I have never seen from Sowell.
I absolutely fail to see his point in these two columns. Maybe he had a brain fart yesterday, but today he seems to double down while at the same time making a vain attempt at backtracking. I expect this kind of double talk from politicians, but Thomas Sowell is supposed to be a conservative philosopher.