So the way I read this is some in the media and upper echelon's feel that they need to counter act the way the populace feels about a subject or a law.  In other words the Know-It-All's need to save us from ourselves.  Isn't that an elitist view?

Example because the populace voted to leave Europe then this author believes that a way is needed to counter these types of vote results.  Democracy doesn't appear to work for this person.  Interesting and I wonder why no one would trust you?