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Stunning Live Performance by Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, & Edgar Meyer: "Scarcely Cricket"

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jaunte3/18/2020 7:22:36 pm PDT

“…Next, somehow, the party of idealistic Teddy Roosevelt, pragmatic Bob Dole and heroic John McCain became anti-intellectual, by which I mean, almost reflexively opposed to knowledge and expertise. We began to distrust the experts and put faith in, well, quackery. It was 2013 when former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal said the Republican Party “must stop being the stupid party.” By 2016, the party had embraced as its nominee a reality-TV host who later suggested that perhaps the noise from windmills causes cancer.”