"If we would learn from their lost successes in our own era of misrule, reconsidering this idea — that a ruling class should acknowledge itself for what it really is, and act accordingly — might be a fruitful place to start."
Arguing for an aristocracy is a quintessentially #conservative view.
Opinion | Why We Miss the WASPs - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/george-bush-wasps.html