I am glad that the author calls out Smart America, or what others call the professional/managerial class, for having the same fundamental ideology as Free Ameri

I am glad that the author calls out Smart America, or what others call the professional/managerial class, for having the same fundamental ideology as Free America. Smart America is the subset of Free America that is smart enough to recognize that persistent inequality reveals flaws in liberal meritocracy, and they are working to fix it because they love meritocracy. However, I think creating a category of Just America is a cop-out, because virtually all of Smart America thinks of themselves that way. They recognize that judging people around them in meritocratic terms is unjust, and they're working on fixing that. The overlap is huge, as the interviewer pointed out. I don't think it's a useful distinction. I think it would be more useful to draw an ideological line between Smart America, aka liberals who aren't idiots, and people who think liberalism is the problem and can't be saved, who are keen to disprove the end of history.