It’s not that I expect them to eat PBJ sandwiches. It’s that I expect them to eat what they tell everyone else to eat. We do not have royalty in the US.
Royalty, no. In January, 2017, The One will become the ex-One, unless something drastic changes, which we should hope not. Noblesse oblige in four-to-eight-year doses, America does get. It’s part of making the job attractive to talented, virtuous people, making bribery and treachery less attractive to those with more of the former than the latter.
Remember Father Bertrand Aristide? When he was exiled to Washington, he had a monk’s cell as his apartment for the purpose of photographers wishing to make him look selfless and ascetic, and an adjoining room fit for a millionaire entertaining guests, who were probably the same photographers. Opulence and privilege that attend a high office is no crime. Hiding it is a symptom of criminality.