The parent poster does have a point; the Wikipedia entry for the author indicates that he identified politically as a Libertarian and later Republican: https://

The parent poster does have a point; the Wikipedia entry for the author indicates that he identified politically as a Libertarian and later Republican: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Evers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Evers which is a likely bias. We should be careful to draw conclusions only after reading the source material that the opinion piece is quoting from.