The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called
Degreed Experts
Townhall,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
7/4/2025 5:16:05 PM
The first six months of the Trump administration have not been kind to the experts and the degree-holding classes.Almost daily during the tariff hysterias of March, we were told by university economists and most of the PhDs employed in investment and finance that the U.S. was headed toward a downward, if not recessionary, spiral.[snip] Instead, recent data show increases in tariff revenue. Personal real income and savings were up. Job creation exceeded prognoses. There was no surge in inflation. The supposedly "crashed" stock market reached historic highs.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
daisey 7/4/2025 5:28:27 PM (No. 1973013)
We love VDH. Brilliant man.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 7/4/2025 5:33:31 PM (No. 1973015)
In my workplace during the early '80s posted in the break room was a crude drawing of a man relieving himself with the caption, "X-Pert". That is the image in my mind's eye whenever I come across the word "expert". Need I say more?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mr Clean 7/4/2025 5:49:02 PM (No. 1973020)
Years ago I read an article about how the world was being destroyed by so-called "experts" -- because they were more often wrong than right. The situation has only grown worse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
crashnburn 7/4/2025 7:01:10 PM (No. 1973033)
This is what happens when ideology Trumps true expertise.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 7/4/2025 7:23:04 PM (No. 1973038)
I learned a long time ago that most experts dont know any better than I do, they just have lots of expensive letters after their name. A real expert wont have to tell you, you'll know.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/4/2025 7:30:36 PM (No. 1973043)
The financial, foreign policy, medical experts, journalists, judges, lawyers, professors, Hollywood, have all lost their credibility. They are so insane that I think the have succumbed to the CIA psyops campaigns waged against the American people.
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MickTurn 7/4/2025 7:48:16 PM (No. 1973051)
The "Experts" on the Lame Stream Media are nothing but Leftist Hacks. PERIOD!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
downnout 7/4/2025 7:49:48 PM (No. 1973053)
Ask any engineer what happens when an MBA starts giving orders…. And
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 7/4/2025 8:39:38 PM (No. 1973071)
VDH never disappoints, he has more knowledge in his little pinky finger than all the colleges in this country with all their fancy degrees.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
synchronicity 7/5/2025 1:03:44 AM (No. 1973103)
BS - More of the Same (MS) - Pilled Higher and Deeper (PhD)
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/5/2025 5:04:19 AM (No. 1973123)
Apparently, the paper issued to those who majored in African Studies, Basket Weaving or Egyptian Pottery is not worth much in the real world. Artificial Intelligence is not advancing, university graduates are just getting dumber.
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I've had my fill of "experts" and "scientists" since covid!
Other than engineers, who are pretty good at reasoning, most college degrees are unimpressive to me anymore. Especially medical degrees, since they are in a straight jacket with protocol pushed by the CDC.
I'm down to preferring the skill set of a farmer these days.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/5/2025 9:06:33 AM (No. 1973176)
FTA - "Universities now wage war against free-thinkers, free speech, free expression, and anything that freely questions the deductive groupthink of the diversity/equity/inclusion commissariat, and global warming orthodoxies."
Higher education is, of course, the epicenter of leftism. The universities promote a value system that is devoid of morality and spirituality. Go to any university and search for a single reference to God, our Creator. You won't see it. America is being neutered slowly but surely. But I'll say one thing - President Trump has sure put a real hurt on leftism in general, no?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/5/2025 9:45:29 AM (No. 1973194)
Yes Victor...you have nailed it...once again.....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/5/2025 11:10:47 AM (No. 1973221)
Years ago, I attended a short seminar titled 'Handling Difficult Personality Types'. This article brings two of those personality types to mind.
The first was the 'fake expert' which was portrayed as a man with a flat head and a very big mouth. In other words, your typical brainless loudmouth. You don't want to listen to this guy because his ideas are just plain bad and only lead to problems.
The other was the 'true expert' who was portrayed by the super villain Brainiac who had an oversized cranium. The problem with this guy was that he expected to control any discussion and there was no room for any other ideas but his own. This guy basically sucked the oxygen out of a room so nobody else could even speak.
It's interesting watching Trump. He listens so he can be influenced but he ultimately runs over everyone else involved. He dominates any discussion or so it would appear. Look at how he handled Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. Look at how he has handled trade talks and so many other issues, for example, the border. He gets his way. If you are in his way, you are likely to get run over.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/5/2025 11:34:22 AM (No. 1973229)
We have expert educators (tons of them), and look at how big education has failed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 7/5/2025 11:35:25 AM (No. 1973230)
From the pen of Robert Heinlein:
“Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it.”
“Most “scientists” are bottle washers and button sorters.”
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 7/5/2025 12:39:35 PM (No. 1973241)
They so wanted what they were saying to be true so it would ruin the Trump agenda.
It's really all they wanted to do, not be accurate or correct, but to have people think it might likely happen and make them scared.
I have a cousin who took all his 401-k money out of the market and put it in cash. Saw him a few months later and he admitted it wasn't a smart move but was convinced by those "experts" that what they were saying was going to happen and figured he would get out before it crashed.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 7/5/2025 4:26:53 PM (No. 1973283)
Experts???? Remember the ozone layer? High Cholesterol? Anthony Fauci? Al Gore? The climate crisis that has been wrong for sixty years? The Apple Alar scam? A college education is good for you? The internal combustion engine will destroy the planet? I could go on but you get the point. The more education they get, the dumber they get.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Kafka2 7/5/2025 4:41:11 PM (No. 1973285)
Most of the experts come from college believe getting degrees makes make them smarter and superior to most other people; they are the elite. They believe this because their professors told them this is so. Wisdom comes when they realize this is nor necessarily so.
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