Insty Picks Up Today's Baton, Tries to Run...

But he's weighed down too much by his own baggage.
Indeed:

Secular liberalism flourishes under bourgeois democracy, but doesn’t seem very good at cultivating the qualities needed to seize or maintain power.

Sadly, what the good professor still doesn't appear to comprehend: he's fed by this type of bourgeois democracy which allows him to flourish too.

One day, he'll cut free from the shackles of liberal higher ed, go independent, and he too might practice what he preaches.

Not betting on it though.
(That safety and cushiness makes it hard to leave the nest, no doubt...)

Plus, I personally don't think the boy's that smart. Computer literate, sure. But intelligent? Hmmm... not so much. Really, he's much like Obama in that professorial safety-net way: waiting to see which way the wind blows before committing. And always, always, always -- no matter how much he preaches, falsely -- protecting the credentialed "insider" ways, which allows him to flourish, as a tenured law professor at Tennessee; as a husband to aforementioned (whiny) InstaWife; and as a distributor of candy-coated links, to all the good boys and girls, who play by the rules.

Trouble is,
he still doesn't see himself as a fatcat, protected in his position all the way, and enjoying "special benefits" that are not so easily assessible to other players less privileged...
Must be the glasses and poor eyesight.