It's hard to be a high-end pretentious elitist snobs without that sort of background: you never want for anything and go to the kind of schools that teach you Latin, assign obscure books, and make you feel like the smartest guy in the room.

And he is smart and well-read. Unfortuately, he's also a conservative and stuck as they descend to madness and stupidity, unwilling to go all in with the right but allergic to the left.