28 Jan 2020
For All You “Credulous Boomer Rubes” Out There
2020 Election, CNN, Smug Liberals
Mark Goldblatt quotes himself from an NR article from 2002:
Elitism, to be sure, is as old as human society. But never in recorded history has a less cerebrally, morally, or spiritually elite Elite looked down their noses at the majority of their countrymen. The minimum requirement for membership in the intelligentsia used to be, well, intelligence. This is no longer the case. Rather, what is now required is the mere sense of your own superiority, the smirky confidence that flows from an undergraduate grasp of history, philosophy, and literature, and which can only be sustained by a maniacal deafness to counterarguments.”
HT: John Hinderaker.
