Reading the author's profile[1], since I'm left leaning and he's been associated with libertarian and right-wing circles, I'm just going to delete from my brain

Reading the author's profile[1], since I'm left leaning and he's been associated with libertarian and right-wing circles, I'm just going to delete from my brain whatever he wrote. Maybe what he's written is true, but given his associations, I'm not going to give him the benefit of he doubt. If I cared more I'd try to debunk it, but well, I don't really care enough. > Formerly, Alexander worked in Washington D.C. as a Research Associate in the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, a Foreign Policy Fellow at Young Voices, and an Associate at the Charles Koch Institute. Well Cato is libertarian, Young Voices I've never heard of, but Charles Koch... oh geezus. > Alexander’s works [...] have been featured in The Washington Times, ... A reputable rag.. not! > ..., The National Interest Wikipedia: The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly conservative international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1994. [...] Writing in Politico, journalist James Kirchick argued in 2016 while commenting on Donald Trump's Russian relationships that The National Interest and its parent company "are two of the most Kremlin-sympathetic institutions in the nation’s capital, even more so than the Carnegie Moscow Center." > The Washington Examiner Ha! [1] https://iea.org.uk/alexander-c-r-hammond/ https://iea.org.uk/alexander-c-r-hammond/