Raffa says, "they [topflight English majors] are what he is looking for." Topflight English majors are the constituency Raffa says Bock should hire. You have

Raffa says, "they [topflight English majors] are what he is looking for." Topflight English majors are the constituency Raffa says Bock should hire. You have to purposefully misread what Raffa has written, in order to see it any other way.