<p>I put skeptical because skeptical doesn’t just mean that you’re kind of 50-50 in your ideas. It can also mean “disbelieving: denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion” </p>
<p>What he is doing here is questioning how effective Jefferson’s ideas would work in today’s world not rejecting them.</p>
<p>He is questioning them because he takes an entire paragraph to discuss them.</p>