While making a tongue-in-cheek defense of elitism in the latest TIME, Joel Stein elicited a chuckle with the following:

Antielitism is a cancer waiting to metastasize in any democracy and one that Alexis de Tocqueville worried about for the U.S. Why do I bring this up? Because in any argument of any kind, elites always quote Tocqueville.

This is Stein?s only reference to the author of Democracy in America, but you can read more about him here, here, and here.