Barack Obama and the Democrats Politics of Contempt – WSJ

Are you considering a vote for Donald Trump because you re bad or because you re stupid?

That s the question the Democratic Party wants to put to wavering voters in the final few weeks of the campaign, the closing argument they think will convince people to choose Kamala Harris instead. Are you an immoral, bigoted person one of those notoriously misogynistic black men who can t stand uppity women, or a white racist who hates foreigners? Or are you a dupe, easily misled by misinformation? Maybe you re both. Whatever. You may not be good or wise enough to understand, but you must listen to us, your moral and intellectual superiors, and do as you re told. You ll thank us later.

We ve long been familiar with this high-altitude view from progressives about people who don t see things their way. They think only ignorance or turpitude could ever explain why others disagree with them, a superiority complex rooted in an epistemic closure to the possibility that there could be mentally sound or morally defensible arguments that challenge their verities.

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I used to consider myself exceptionally smart. I won scholarships and prizes in my youth almost too numerous to mention. As I have grown older I realized other people were smart too, really smart as it turned out. Often smarter than I was. My politics also became more right wing. Either I was growing stupider or perhaps, just perhaps merely learning more about the world.