“Increasingly, incompetents occupy the upper reaches—perhaps the product of malign designs, but, if the cries of the elite are taken seriously, more often out of a sincerely held belief that justice in some way demands it.”

What in the neo-reactionary am I reading here?

Introducing a bill isn’t “slamming the door” on anything. Unless the foxes all vote to bar themselves from the hen house, this might as well be blogging.