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Liz Cheney and the Death of the “Expert”
Let me begin by congratulating Harriet Hageman for her victory yesterday. I hope she wins in November and represents Wyoming and America well during her tenure in Congress.
The best thing to come out of our two years with COVID is a general and growing skepticism of “experts.” We’ve been lied to, ineptly led, treated like children, ignored, censored, and told what’s good for us by people who think they know better than we do what’s good for us.
Liz Cheney is one of those people, her “expertise” being her superior morality and her knowledge of what’s good for Republicans and good for conservatives — despite the vast majority of Republicans and conservatives thinking otherwise.
It would be good if more “experts” could be removed from office as easily by the people over whom they hold sway by virtue of their ersatz superiority of intellect, morality, and credentials.
One down.
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That’s what I think.
We made a ton of policy mistakes. They don’t want to admit it. They make money off of it. Then they bitch about socialism and populism.
David French was featured at the latest Aspen Ideas thing.
Government should be strictly defined public goods only. Supposedly it’s 80% nonpublic goods.
Public choice theory and…
Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™
There are plenty of truly expert people, but the only way to become an official expert is to say the things that the gatekeepers want…and to say the contradictory things that they want tomorrow.
I have to disagree with Brent Bozell here… Hollywood, Media and the left didnt loose. They didnt spend millions shoring up a failed candidate… They gave a few endorsements, wore a t-shirt for a photo op… They’ll shrug it off and move on.