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SOCIAL PRIVILEGE: Paul Campos sounds like Angelo Codevilla while writing about the career of Elena ?

By Glenn Reynolds

SOCIAL PRIVILEGE: Paul Campos sounds like Angelo Codevilla while writing about the career of Elena Kagan. “The relative ease with which Elena Kagan is being confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court illustrates the extent to which Establishment America believes that a member of the club in good standing ? someone who has gone to the right schools, and gotten the right kinds of jobs, and befriended the right sorts of people ? can be counted on to do the right thing, even though her own legal and political views remain largely unknown. Naturally, from the establishment?s perspective, the right thing is to do nothing that might seriously disturb any of the social arrangements that continue to serve its interests so well. And in the end, Obama?s faith in Kagan is most likely based on a well-warranted belief that, as a Supreme Court justice, she will prove to be as acceptable to that establishment as Obama himself.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 24, 2010 (boomark / email).