“It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence not really but by the failure of half the country to know what’s good for them.”
One of the more smug statements you’ll ever read.
You’re not getting, are you? “Predicated on the belief” — did you catch that part? Do you understand he is criticizing, not endorsing? No, I guess you do not.