Right On

Matt Yglesias writes:

Over at The Gadflyer, for example, Jonathan Weiler says liberals need to be more careful about calling Bush (or his woefully underinformed supporters -- not all his supporters, to be sure, but a majority of them) stupid or ignorant or whatever lest we be termed elitists. This is probably right, but for the next several years I don't need to care and this is just a weblog written for the pleasure of myself and whoever chooses to read it. I'll be as elitist as I want to be which, to be perfectly honest, is pretty damn elitist.

I couldn't agree more. The intellectual has three options: to be openly elitist, to couch elitism is pseudo-populist rhetoric, or to embrace full-bore demagogic populism. I choose the first. Philosopher-kings, and all that.