Last week has enjoyed some comic relief at the preciousness that is Pete Buttigieg, but in fact these MENSA-mongering types are actually quite horrific people—all would-be tyrants, full stop.

Then there is the the smug, presumptuous, condescending, entitled type of progressive who barely bothers to concede their will to power over you, like Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (naturally), who was the commencement speaker at Northeastern University in Boston not long ago. It’s only two minutes long, but it seems much longer, and you will seldom see a more repulsive display of progressive pretension and condescension. Contempt doesn’t even begin to express the range of justified reactions you could have to this appalling drivel.

A reminder from C.S. Lewis:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”