That's not hyperbole or polemics, either. No regard for the rule of law is inherent in their worldview. The utterances of elite intellectuals are all that matters, not the writings of stodgy old white guys in history who obviously CAN'T know as much as the modern day elites.
Remember, our own stodgy old white guys were sitting in office watching all these things happen. we have been stabbed in the back by our own congressional reps, and that is the first issue that needs to be corrected.