Preach it, brother

Lex Alxander on why people might be a little less trusting of people in leadership positions than New York Times columnist David Brooks thinks we ought to be:

"[W] hat really gets our goats is that if you have enough money and/or profess to believe certain things, you can commit the most calamitous misfeasances, utterly without consequence — indeed, you can make a career out of failing upward – while those who were right are marginalized and ridiculed."