“The Constitution is trash,” he said.

From Things Worth Fighting For by Bari Weiss.  

The other day on The View, I watched as a man with a Harvard law degree and a denizen of the most exclusive institutions in America, stumbled on the real problem facing the world: “The Constitution is trash,” he said.

If you are looking for the definition of the privilege of living in America, of living in a country with the First Amendment, it is the ability to say something so foolish on daytime television.  

Yes.  But his argument betrays either profound ignorance or ideological zealotry, neither of which are admirable traits.  We have a whole intelligentsia committed to praising such ignorance and/or zealotry.  

Who needs fifth columns when you have eager idiot intellectuals?