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If the elites were delivering the goods, then snobbery might be a decent governing philosophy.

//"Discussing Michael Wolff?s new book, Fire and Fury, Hilton said any claims by elitists and the establishment that Donald Trump was mentally unfit for the presidency came second to Trump?s promotion of a pro-worker, populist agenda on immigration, infrastructure, trade and the fight against China.

He went on to emphasise the shortcomings of Trump?s predecessors, adding: ?My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he?d ever dealt with.

?Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else. This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.?

But the real world did not matter to the elites, Hilton said. ?For them, it?s all about style and tone, not substance and results. Donald Trump offends the elites aesthetically, like a piece of art that?s not to their taste."

When you allow taste to trump policy ? and I?m addressing Bill Kristol directly here ? you?ve elevated mere snobbery to a governing philosophy.//

Stephen Green

Full post as published by Lex Communis on January 09, 2018 (boomark / email).