A self-fulfilling prophecy needs willing participants. What becomes of the prophets, their warnings, and their pretensions to authority when the audience stops believing?
Campaign promises are cheap. The better test is whether you would hire the candidate, trust the person's judgment in a crisis, or expect to get your property back intact.
At a House hearing, the NPR chief said her thinking had 'evolved,' and she couldn't recall a post about reparations. A year later came the First Amendment award. What a career arc.