From Overton:
ShareVictor Davis Hanson has a message for the media and the self-anointed “experts” who’ve spent years forecasting disaster under Trump: look at the record.
In his eyes, their failures weren’t honest miscalculations but an unwillingness to admit they simply didn’t understand the country, or the president that they were so eager to condemn.
“I want to talk about our so-called experts,” he began, setting the tone for his argument with a reference to the infamous letter signed by intelligence veterans.
“We know they've been wrong when they sign these collective letters, 51 intelligence authorities assured us Hunter's laptop was pretty much made up in Russia.”
It wasn’t, he argued, an isolated misfire.
Hanson accused major outlets of embracing analyses that fell apart under the weight of real events.
“Recently, in some of the marquee newspaper sites, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, of course, the New York Times, they made a series of statements by so-called experts that are absolutely confounded by reality.”
He was setting the stage for a bigger argument: that these repeated failures weren’t simply about being wrong.
They were about refusing to see what was right in front of their own eyes. (Read more.)
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