Talk about bootstraps

I hadn't paid much attention to Webb, Virginia's new senator, but it turns out the man is a lunatic:

"Furthermore, an unspoken insinuation seems to be inundating our national debate: Certain immigrant groups have the "right genetics" and thus are natural entrants to the "overclass," while others, as well as those who come from stock that has been here for 200 years and have not made it to the top, simply don't possess the necessary attributes."

An "unspoken insinuation" "seems to be" "inundating", scare quotes around "right genetics," a phrase that I can guarantee no one except Webb has used, and yet he quotes it. And "stock that has been here for 200 years and not made it to the top," I wonder what Webb could be talking about?

Talk about hateful thinking. Doesn't the Journal read the pieces it publishes?