“The GOP’s descent into vaudeville began with the
2008 vice presidential nomination of Sarah Palin, it accelerated in 2011 when [Herman]
Cain was taken seriously as a presidential candidate, and it reached warp speed
with the party’s capture by the man who takes Cain seriously as a maker of
monetary policy. Cain’s certitude about his economic nostrums is inversely
proportional to the study he has invested in the subject, which probably has
involved less effort than he recently invested in organizing a PAC to promote
Trump’s reelection. Cain’s and his nominator’s boundless confidence in their
economic beliefs demonstrates the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It is named for two
Cornell psychologists who in 1999 described the bias by which the lower a
person’s intellectual ability, the more the person tends to overestimate it.”—
George
F. Will, “The Cain and Moore Nominations
Are Two More Tests for Republicans to Fail,” Washington Post, Apr. 10, 2019
(Photo of Herman
Cain speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 11, 2011, taken by Gage
Skidmore)
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