Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On 2025-02-07, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On 22 Jan 2025 16:07:32 GMT, Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> wrote:
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You also don't realize that current historians are almost all liberals and
Democrats (well over 95%).  There are very few Republican historians out
there. Those opining on the rankings and setting up the criteria and
weighting by which to judge are Democrats. Their opinion of Trump is not
a surprise.

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I wouldn't exactly call Niall Ferguson or Stephen Kotkin hardcore
Democrats. (Known for their bios of Kissinger and Stalin respectively)

I don't understand the point you are trying to make. Yes, I agree there
are Republican historians out there (though I would be surprised if
Ferguson was one.) But there are very few of them out there compared
to Democrats. Are you trying to say that's wrong?

The whole reason I entered into this debate was not Trump, but the
claim that a survey of *historians* would possibly objectively rank
Trump.  I know historians. My father was a Republican historian and
for decades I would hear his stories of dwindling Republican presence
among historians. There weren't enough to get together for meals at
conferences by the time he retired.

33 Democrats for each Republican historian is an amazing ratio. (Note
that Scott would have been spared his embarrassing thread if he hadn't
first invented the fact that it was a survey of *historians*.  It
wasn't.)

Chris