"'Elitism' is thus a crime not of society's actual elite, but of its intellectuals. Mr. Obama has 'a dash of Harvard disease,' proclaims the Weekly Standard. Mr. Obama reminds columnist George Will of Adlai Stevenson, rolled together with the sinister historian Richard Hofstadter and the diabolical economist J.K. Galbraith, contemptuous eggheads all. Mr. Obama strikes Bill Kristol as some kind of 'supercilious' Marxist. Mr. Obama reminds Maureen Dowd of an . . . anthropologist."
New Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank assesses the reaction to Barack Obama's borrowing of the thesis to What's the Matter with Kansas?
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