What people “hate even more is to be patronized” Andrew L Seidel (“The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American“) notes that the framers of the U.S. Constitution were for the most part not religious men. At least, not in the evangelicals’ sense. Where they referenced morality and religion as necessary to an orderly society, the two were separate things. For men such as themselves, morality was the product of their elite educations and deep inquiry. For the masses, religion was a pale substitute and ripe for abuse and exploitation by the unscrupulous.* To guard against the latter, the framers revered almost as secular saints were elitists in a groundbreaking way by wisely separating church and state. Thus, they wrote “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States” into the U.S. Constitution even before the First Amendment was added. On that note, Tom Nichols in his The Atlantic newsletter addresses the very different elitism of Fox personalities. The MAGA right loudly whines, Nichols observes, that they’ve been looked down on while describing opponents “as traitors, perverts, and, as Donald Trump himself once put it, ‘human scum.’” In MAGAstan, “Fuck your feelings” works only one way. Nichols owns being elitist insofar as he believes “some people are better at things than others.” In fact, that “some opinions, political views, personal actions, and life choices are better than others,” he writes: In this, elitism is the opposite of populism, whose adherents believe that virtue and competence reside in…