Sam Rye posted a link to Mr. Taibbi’s compelling essay at the very stogy, not to speak of Corporatist Financial Times:
http://on.ft.com/292vrCK

Mr . Rye makes the soundest kind of argument that Mr. Taibbi makes a case of more cogency -not beholden to the current apologetics for the Cold War relic of the EU, nor its being mired in Neo-Liberalism and the Myth of Germanic Virtue.

Read Gideon Rachman’s essay:

‘I do not believe that Brexit will happen, There will be howls of rage, but why should extremists on both sides dictate how the story ends?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/8f2aca88-3c51-11e6-9f2c-36b487ebd80a.html?hubRefSrc=email&utm_source=lfemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=lfnotification#ft-article-comments

More of the same of Elite contempt for the democratic process.

For valuable insights on Rogoff see this essay from the now suspended publication of The New York Times Examiner, the site is still up and a valuable resource:

https://www.nytexaminer.com/2013/04/reinhart-and-rogoff-are-not-being-straight/

And as for Mr. Sullivan as some kind of pundit, see this on his unseemly, not to speak of ugly, defense of the Bell Curve ( I know old business, but a revealing insight into Sullivan’s self-serving myopia) :

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/741423/andrew_sullivan_revives_racist_%22bell_curve%22_argument–here’s_why_he’s_wrong

In both the Rogoff and Sullivan consideration as reliable sources of opinion, they both have a verifiable records of bad judgement , not to speak of lack of honesty and worse.

What Mr. Taibbi describes here as  the political arrogance of the Elites, via Platonic chatterers and apologists, for that Elite as knowing better than the Electorate: look to the Constitutional Exceptionalism of Carl Schmitt, as documented in ‘The Enemy, An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt’ by Gopal Balakrishnan In Chapter Eight titled ‘The Crisis of Political Reason’.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-reaction-to-brexit-is-the-reason-brexit-happened-20160627

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