‘Popular wisdom … embrace at your own risk’

Are you up to speed on the political term, “the popular wisdom is” and then you fill in the blank?

Here’s how it works. A story, let’s say what is the governor going to do after leaving office? Everyone is trying to predict what is going to happen and then some wise guy (this is now a gender neutral term) comes up with a theory. Other reporters look at it and wish they had thought of that, and most everybody deems it a good angle and uses the theory in their stories. Voila, popular wisdom is born and it weasels its way into every story until, heaven forbid, somebody proves it wrong.

Say hello to John James and President Donald Trump.