Expert Testimonials

How the "experts" failed:

"This type of thing is exactly why so many on both the left and right are content with burning it all down," reflected Sean Trende, no Trump fan. "'Gosh, why don't people trust the experts?'" One answer is that the experts and the elites have shown miserable judgment. The elites took the death of a suspected convenience store robber in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014 and the death of an arrested fentanyl user in Minneapolis in May 2020 as indications that the nation, in which nearly 53% of voters had elected a Black man president in 2008, was infected with systemic racism in need of constant DEI chastisement. The experts' dishonest responses and insupportable remedies to the pandemic were applauded by almost all academic and journalistic voices and imposed by government officials with no thought to their costs. This culminated in June 2020 when the experts and elites agreed that pandemic restrictions should, in view of America's ingrained racism, not apply to massive Black Lives Matter protests. Now we hear complaints, some of them plausible, that Trump and Elon Musk are destroying institutions possessed of expert wisdom and elite credentials. It's understandable, given recent history, that many Americans are putting little stock in those complaints.

Trust has to be earned, which they didn't...