"strong and powerful but also humanized"

So, I think that David "Then there is our fervent devotion to equality, to the notion that all people are equal and deserve equal recognition and respect. It’s hard in this frame of mind to define and celebrate greatness, to hold up others who are immeasurably superior to ourselves." Brooks should read more trashy fantasy novels. Mr. Brooks: there are ways to get your fix for "strong and powerful" "embodiments of just authority" and safe spaces for your fantasies about "wielders of supreme power," the "graceful aristocrats"* who are "immeasurably superior" binding together joyfully obedient peoples with their "sober and enduring" exercise of "just power." You don't have to take it out on the rest of the country!


*disclosure: Brooks says "graceful aristocratic democrat", obviously thinking of Thucydides' Pericles: the great man who can rule the people absolutely within the appearance of a democracy.