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Jeb Bush gets the treatment from Gail Collins today.

Wow! Jeb Bush is Awful

She was cutting him some slack, but now has pulled that slack back in.

The problem is not so much what Jeb thinks as that he is so foolish for saying it out loud.

We know that as a Bush he has to think like a Bush but now we can see that the built in patrician arrogance will play out in the foot in mouth area as well.

What is this all about? I think that my theory of privileged people is in operation here.

Privileged people have never been questioned closely about their behavior or their beliefs. For one thing, they do not allow themselves to be exposed to difference. They have a moat of their own which keeps them from the world as it is. And they are often tone deaf to regular people's reactions to current events.

Think of it. Politics is their family business. They have had a high degree of success at it. The success has brought a kind of arrogance of thought. They have come to believe themselves special.

And so on.

Ask Barbara Bush. She is an expert of the pitfalls of entitlement. Smug, yes. But smart.

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