Jon, as you know, Mill went on to say this:

“I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.”

Brandon is, clearly, a bigot, not a gentleman. For a definition of a stupid conservative, however, I’ll offer this: a stupid conservative is a conservative who gives any money to Duke ‘university’. Alumni, please note.