Should-Read: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry: The hypocrisy of Bob Corker: "It is well-understood that the United States, and the West in general, is in the grips of a populist insurgency that often has noxious ideas...
...and even more often lacks the competence to turn even its good ideas into policy. It is less well-understood that a main driver of this insurgency's strength is the intellectual and even, arguably, moral bankruptcy of too many in our governing elites, who often speak the language of the common good but seem to believe in little more than that the common good always intersects with their own class interest and that they have a natural right to rule. Bob Corker's sudden rediscovery of principle right at the moment when it stops being risky politically is a darkly comical symbol of this contemptible attitude...
