"While the man in the street can learn from his mistakes, the elite, immured in their ivory bubbles (yes, I’m mixing ivory towers and Progressive bubbles) were not up to the tasks they had so arrogant assigned themselves."

Bookworm writes,

...When Barack Obama, with his abiding dislike for America, decided that the Pax America was a bad thing, not a good one, and withdrew America’s military and moral leadership from the world, all of these petty little bureaucratic potentates proved to be just as stupid as, if not more stupid than, the ordinary man in the street. While the man in the street can learn from his mistakes, the elite, immured in their ivory bubbles (yes, I’m mixing ivory towers and Progressive bubbles) were not up to the tasks they had so arrogant assigned themselves.

Read more here.