What is off-putting about them,” one political veteran told me, “is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance. They think they are special.”

I think it is telling that Ellison, the author of the Vanity Fair article, would choose such a smarmy and, of course, anonymous opinion to lead her own insulting piece of work.  I'll refer to it as work because I assume she was paid money to babble and gossip in this manner.  And the second serving of the tripe by Langille (is Fox still paying him?) has all the intellectual and journalistic integrity of a middle school Facebook post.