Navarro's Source "Ron Vara" Is Fake, Anagram of "Navarro"

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Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself

Peter Navarro, a top White House trade adviser, has developed a reputation in Washington as a Rasputin-like China hawk who whispers anti-China musings in President Trump’s ear.
This week, Washington learned about the mysterious anti-China voice that has long whispered in Mr. Navarro’s ear: Ron Vara.
Ron Vara has appeared as a cryptic voice of economic wisdom more than a dozen times in five of Mr. Navarro’s 13 books, dispensing musings like “You’ve got to be nuts to eat Chinese food” and “Only the Chinese can turn a leather sofa into an acid bath, a baby crib into a lethal weapon and a cellphone battery into heart-piercing shrapnel.”
But Ron Vara, it turns out, does not exist. At least not in corporeal form. He is apparently a figment of Mr. Navarro’s imagination — an anagram of Mr. Navarro’s surname that the trade adviser created as a Hitchcockian writing device and stuck with as something of an inside joke with himself.
 

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It's like the world is getting stupider every day.


In the US, that is the product of liberals completely taking over the education system.
 
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In the US, that is the product of liberals completely taking over the education system.

Yes, that would certainly explain why conservative states tend to do more poorly on academic tests, why your Republican president who attended private schools writes letters like an 8-year old, and why his Republican adviser with PhD's from those bastions of liberalism Harvard Business School & Harvard School of Government cites quotes from his imaginary friend.
 
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Yes, that would certainly explain why conservative states tend to do more poorly on academic tests, why your Republican president who attended private schools writes letters like an 8-year old, and why his Republican adviser with PhD's from those bastions of liberalism Harvard Business School & Harvard School of Government cites quotes from his imaginary friend.

No, in truth, those older people were actually being given a superior education to what is currently making us stupider every day they just happen to be who they are naturally, no amount of education can cure stupidity even if a poor education can instill it. If education were not getting worse the world might not be be getting less stupid every day but we it wouldn't be getting more stupid.

Conservative states tend to do more poorly on academic tests you say. That is a very interesting statement. What kind of academic test does a state take? How does a state answer a test question at all? More poorly than who, no not who , probably in the case of a state that would have to be more poorly than what? All those other states doing not quite as poorly I suppose. Too bad no state does well but with liberal education policy dominating throughout the country that is probably asking too much. Do you think that calling Harvard School of Government a bastion of liberalism is a misrepresentation of the prevailing political leanings of the faculty there? I would wager it is not but perhaps a bastion of progressivism might be more apt? I will have to plead ignorance on that, Can't say I know much about the political leanings of any of the professors at Harvard other than there are not very many willing to call themselves conservatives.
 
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Conservative states tend to do more poorly on academic tests you say. That is a very interesting statement. What kind of academic test does a state take? How does a state answer a test question at all? More poorly than who, no not who , probably in the case of a state that would have to be more poorly than what? All those other states doing not quite as poorly I suppose. Too bad no state does well but with liberal education policy dominating throughout the country that is probably asking too much.

That paragraph doesn't make any sense.

Do you think that calling Harvard School of Government a bastion of liberalism is a misrepresentation of the prevailing political leanings of the faculty there? I would wager it is not but perhaps a bastion of progressivism might be more apt? I will have to plead ignorance on that, Can't say I know much about the political leanings of any of the professors at Harvard other than there are not very many willing to call themselves conservatives.

They're a mix and back in 1979, they would've been more conservative as were most institutions.

Also, I made a mistake earlier - his Masters was from the school of government. His PhD was from the business school.
 
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That paragraph doesn't make any sense.

I disagree. It surely makes as much sense as a sentence that has a state taking an academic test and doing more poorly.
 
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I disagree. It surely makes as much sense as a sentence that has a state taking an academic test and doing more poorly.

The state as an institution doesn't take a test, but the students within those states do. I'm as much of a fan of pedantry as anybody, but pretending to be confused by my wording is more than a little ridiculous.
 
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The state as an institution doesn't take a test, but the students within those states do. I'm as much of a fan of pedantry as anybody, but pretending to be confused by my wording is more than a little ridiculous.

Bemused would be a better term.
 
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