In traditional lines, only a handful of experts are our philosophical heavyweights: brain, highly educated giants like Thomas Sowell, Milton Friedman, Victor Davis Hanson, Russell Kirk, and William F. Buckley. You may agree or disagree with their ideas, but they were nearly always based on sound logic, history, philosophy, and reasoning.
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Beneath this tier, you have the one-trick-ponies ( like me! ) who lack the depth of their education to be real giants, but have specialized knowledge on one or two subjects. For instance, I’m a PR specialist. Question me about PR, and I’ll bite your ear off like Mike Tyson, and you should pay close attention because I know what the heck I’m talking about. Obviously, I also have opinions about history and politics, but I lack the depth of knowledge of a Sowell or a Hanson. I’m just a ( fairly ) smart guy who reads a lot and forms his own ideas, but I have n’t studied history on their level.
That does n’t mean they’re always right and I’m always wrong. But it does mean that their opinions on history, elections, and finance are rooted in substantially more information and environment. Therefore, their conclusions are based on more reliable information.
Finally, below the one-trick-ponies are the no-trick-ponies. These conservative commentators are the snarkiest, edgiest voices on social media because they lack the intellect to ever be regarded as intellectuals and have n’t bothered to master any specializations or skills.
I’m speaking, of course, of Candace Owens.
Previously, she was going to help black Americans step away from the Democrat Party. That was her celebrity-making time. And now?
She’s also taking methods, but now they’re geese steps.
Candace Owens began her journalism career by trying to profit from Trump-bashing: She was CEO of an online publication that conducted an “investigation” of Trump’s penis size ( spoiler alert: It was deemed lacking ), and she blasted conservatives in 2015 — less than 10 years ago — claiming it was” good news” that the” Republican Tea Party … will eventually die off…”
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And finally, in 2017, she abruptly switched positions and assumed the identity of a hardcore traditionalist and Mag activist:” I became a liberal overnight”.
How heartfelt was her change a short while before? Do n’t know and do n’t care. But it’s probably wise to become afraid of professional activists/commentators who turn factors, abandon core values, and metamorphosize into something totally contrary.
She’s not the first: It’s really surprisingly frequent in social circles. Only a generation earlier, Arianna Huffington did the exact opposite development, going from for a reactionary, bomb-throwing liberal that she refused to support Bob Dole in’ 96 ( favoring the “purer” Newt Gingrich ) to flipping attributes and launching a progressive version of the Drudge Report, The Huffington Post.  ,
( Today, alas, the liberal version of the Drudge Report is the Drudge Report. )
I’m not advocating that political movements turn their backs on new converts. A big tent should welcome everyone. However, we should be cautious before assuming everyone’s motives are accurate.
Only Candace Owens knows what’s in her heart, but what’s in her head is unimpressive, lightweight gibberish. She recently ran a YouTube episode entitled,” Literally Hitler. Why Can’t We Talk About Him”? In addition to downplaying Nazi atrocities, she told her audience,” …we actually know nothing about]Hitler ] other than the fact that we must fear him”.
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No, Candace: The rest of us know a great deal about Hitler. See, we’ve read books ( including” Mein Kampf” ), learned history, gone to school, and done our homework. Many of us have even been close friends with World War II veterans as well as Holocaust survivors. It’s Candace who knows nothing about Hitler, history, or anything else, as her language inadvertently exposed.
Today, Citizen Free Press became the latest conservative site to reject her, hosting a link to her ramblings with the headline,” Candace Owens has gone off the deep end, begins pushing Kanye Jewish conspiracies” . ,
Which was followed by the headline” Candace Owens is losing it — claims Jews assassinated JFK”
Look, I get it: There’s desperation in the GOP to attract new voters, and the idea of Candace Owens — a smart, brave black lady who saw the light and became a conservative — is more appealing than the reality of the individual. As a concept, Candace Owens is great! As a person, her ex-colleagues at the Daily Wire could n’t wait to kick her ass out the door, because she’s more harm than help for the conservative movement.
In less than a decade, she’s gone from the left to the right, and then to the Reich.  ,
Her most recent salvo in the Jewish-hatred is supporting the notion that contemporary Jews are not “real Jews” and therefore lack any real ties to the Holy Land. It extends the Khazar theory of Ashkenazi ancestry, a pseudoscientific theory that was popular in Germany before the Holocaust ( ca n’t imagine why ), but which has since been refuted by modern DNA testing. There’s roughly 16 million Jews in the world, so it’s not like their DNA is a mystery: Jewish genetics has been exhaustively studied. And we know, definitively, that today’s Jews can genetically trace their origins to the Middle East.  ,
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” I mean, I’ve read a ton of books and I’ve figured it out, okay”, Candace assured us. ” I’m just, like, so over the idea that Israel is our ally”.
Well, Israel is our ally. It’s Candace Owens who is n’t.
If Candace really wants to cosplay as a Nazi, she should now grow out the rest of her mustache to complete the ensemble.