Denmark much?

"People like Steinbrenner are also an antidote to — if I can be pseudo-intellectual for a second (and if I can’t who can?) — Tocqueville’s great fear. The Great Frenchman had many nice things to say about the culture of democracy, but he was plagued by the sense that democratic culture would be gentle, mild and mediocre. It would seduce people with its pleasantness into giving up strong passions and grand ambitions."