Maybe I shouldn't jump in, but here goes:
Who is Thomas Sowell's "ilk"?
Thomas Sowell has offered up some extremely insightful and reasoned work in the past. This most recent work, and some work I’d seen here over a year plus ago came nowhere near the mark I’d have expected. Frankly, they (my remembered examples) smacked of go-along, get-along gotta vote for the most electable second-most evil establishment candidate - as does the article discussed in this thread.
In that vein, when I wrote “ilk” I was thinking of Kristol, Will, Krauthammer and all the rest of the so-called conservative DC punditry elites who are all now saying the same, or worse. So much so that the cat is out of the bag now - full blown establishment RINOs that don’t want to change the status quo.