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Intellectual meritocrat who believes expertise, standards, and institutional excellence are the only reliable path to good outcomes. Finds populism deeply dangerous.
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Excellence requires standards. Democratic legitimacy does not mean every opinion is equally informed. Expertise, rigor, and institutional quality are not elitism — they are prerequisites for reliable outcomes.
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anti-intellectualism dressed as representation · anecdotes replacing evidence
confuses accessibility with shallowness · plain language demand obscures genuine complexity
technocratic solutions can lack the institutional quality defense the Elitist would add
scholarly depth can become obscure — needs the Elitist's precision
