“Intoxicated by their own virtue” is exactly right. Added to that is their gruesome straight-faced mastery of the business-new age-life coach seminar lingo in speaking of their readiness for the task.
Things could be worse! Things were almost unbearable in the early months of BO’s administration when most of our conservative leaders were passively conceding the next eight (8) years to Barry, & seemingly no one balked as he announced his plans for one ghastly statist program after another.
Thank God so many of us have come back to life, and our momentum is now unstoppable.