Ashton: Ben Carson is my go to example of how highly educated people can be dumb. Genuine top level neurosurgeon, almost once in a generation talent. Also thought the pyramids were built to store grain.

You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.

The person who wrote that tweet is a huge fan of Cleon Skousen, a guy who identified a bunch of stuff right wingers didn’t like in the 1950s and then wrote a book falsely claiming he had evidence that all of those things were part of the Commies’ written plans. open.substack.com/pub/sethcotl...

Down the Derp State Rabbit Hole with the Chair of the Marion County (OR) GOPopen.substack.com Cleon Skousen's conspiracy theories, Chinese commandos invading from Mexico, and other oldies but goodies from the right wing playbook

You know who else loves Skousen? Ben Carson. This article is from 2015, but just the other day I saw Carson promote Skousen’s book as a brilliant expose on how Communism worms its way into the minds of America’s youth. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

Ben Carson's love affair with a "nutjob" conspiracy theorist.www.motherjones.com A top GOP presidential contender has embraced the dark, paranoid, and crazy worldview of a far-right pseudohistorian.

Ben Carson is my go to example of how highly educated people can be dumb. Genuine top level neurosurgeon, almost once in a generation talent. Also thought the pyramids were built to store grain.

Poster child for dunning-krueger