Most likely. It's what happens when one jettisons their moral groundings for relativism. Gradually, the "lesser of two evils" morphs into not just a voting option, it becomes a categorical imperative. On a national scale, this leads to greater and greater decay, and the leaders in Washington come to realize they can get away with anything they want.
The claims of intellectual superiority are a sure sign of his “progressive” Liberal D-Bag status.
He sounds annoyingly a lot like John F’n Kerry.