… is from page 403 of The Thomas Sowell Reader (2011):
A careful definition of words would destroy half the agenda of the political left and scrutinizing evidence would destroy the other half.
DBx: Indeed so.
And now that the political right has largely adopted the same agenda (although wrapped in different packaging) as has long been peddled by the political left, Sowell’s wise words apply today to the political right no less than to the political left.
Consult tomorrow’s “Quotation of the Day” for one such fact that undoes much of the case made by the likes of Trump (on the right) and Sanders (on the left) for protective tariffs. (That “Quotation of the Day” will go live tomorrow, September 6th, at 4:15am Eastern Time.)
