Despite the Liberal Media’s Insistence, Americans Must Judge ‘Experts’ With Caution

Pronouncements from President Trump describing his actions are almost always countered by
the far-left media with something along the lines of, “But experts say…,” followed by high-minded,
eggheaded lecture from a so-called expert on the left ridiculing Trump for his failure to follow their
established institutional pattern of thought.

Just a few examples of the media’s devotion to the “expertocracy.”
“Experts on Russia say Donald Trump is wrong about the war in Ukraine” – Forbes.
“We asked 50 legal experts about the Trump presidency” – New York Times.
“Experts urge caution on Trump call for Hormuz deployment” – UPI.

Sometimes, the far-left media gets upset about the Trump administration’s cavalier attitude
toward “experts.” Last August, NPR did a segment on “How a distrust of experts is shaping policy under Trump,” basically complaining that administration officials like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. feed into the growing lack of societal respect for experts.

The game played by the media actually has a name – it’s the “appeal to authority” tactic, a
blatant effort to discredit or disparage a political idea by describing it as reckless, feckless or just plain academically or scientifically incorrect. The result of such an exercise is to downplay or discredit outside-the-box thought and political ingenuity by predicting failure in advance – predictions from the mouths of specialists who are awarded God-like authority by liberal news outlets.