Quote of the day

"The American people, I think, not only have a toleration but also a hunger for explanation and complexity, and a willingness to acknowledge hard problems. I think one of the biggest mistakes that is made in Washington is this notion you have to dumb down things for the public."

— Barack Hussein Obama, interview with Newsweek's Jon Meacham

After eight years of Manichaean ethos, elitism looks attractive.