A Cabinet Of Skeptics

The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto, currently the paper's editorial features editor, used to write a column called Best Of The Web Today. That column, currently penned by James Freeman, was instrumental to the development of my political voice that built up to my blogging endeavors. Taranto's incarnation of the column included a snarky "what would we do without experts?" category, where he highlighted the absurd and the head-scratching.

That line echoes as "expert" dominoes tumble, one after another, in the wake of Trump's Presidential victory and his actions this first month of his administration. Supposedly deeper-thinking and more sober people are lamenting and bewailing the abandonment of past norms in favor of rapid, multi-front change, and especially in acts that break outside the current Overton Window of what experts deem reasonable.