And Now It's All This

Bob Somersby gives Christopher Edley a razzing:

Christopher Edley thinks he’s one of your “betters.” [] According to Edley, rubes like us should want our “betters” in important posts, like the post in which Kagan will serve:

EDLE: The tension between elitism and populism is embedded in our national DNA because America rejected the model of a monarch ruling by divine right in favor of an iffy experiment in democratic self-governance. So now you are responsible for choosing your leader. Do you want someone like you or someone better than you?

What an astonishing framework! But so it goes when people like Edley spends decades inside institutions like Harvard, convincing themselves that they and their peers are “better” than all the rest of us rubes.

Not fair. What Edley meant, of course, was merely to ask whether in choosing your leader you would want someone better than Yoo.

(Via Angry Bear.)