not to fan the flames, but has anyone looked into political philosopher Leo Strauss and the Straussians? Strauss taught at the U of Chicago

consider the following list of his students or students of his students: Justice Clarence Thomas; Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; former Assistant Secretary of State Alan Keyes; former Secretary of Education William Bennett; Weekly Standard editor and former Quayle Chief of Staff William Kristol; former New York Post editorials editor John Podhoretz; former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman John T. Agresto; Alan Bloom...and more

to paraphrase an important Straussian tenet*, "the common man can
not handle the truth". They believe in an elite class of men that are superior beings. if you have time, google the name...it's pretty interesting stuff!

*philosophy inadvertently exposes commen men to certain hard truths, truths too hard for them to bear: that there are no gods to reward good or punish evil; that no one's patria is really any better than anyone else's; that one's ancestral ways are merely conventional. This leads to nihilism, epitomized by the listless, meaningless life of bourgeois man, or to dangerous experiments with new gods