medium · Enhanced ACT reading
The author writes: "The reformers were not wrong about the disease; they were wrong about the cure, and being right about the first made them harder to dissuade from the second."
In context, this sentence functions primarily to:
- concede the reformers' diagnostic accuracy while explaining how that very accuracy entrenched their flawed remedy
- praise the reformers for correctly identifying both the underlying disease and its appropriate remedy
- argue that the reformers fundamentally misunderstood the underlying disease, which in turn led them to an incorrect cure
- suggest that the reformers' persistent errors about the proper cure caused them to misjudge the true nature of the disease
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