[William McKinley]

I also plead guilty to an amount of elitism; I want my country to be governed by the elite, just as I want my company to be run by the elite and I want my football team to have as many elite players as possible. Anything else is madness.

[IronJack]

Anything else is madness.

Yes, the madness of juggernaut egalitarianism, the same runaway madness that inflamed the Jacobins to heights of depravity unknown under the aristocracy they displaced. It was that fear of Procrustean "leveling" that prompted Burke et. al. to reject the egalite of the French Revolution in favor of a moderated, restrained meritocracy. And therein lie the roots of the movement we cherish today.