Leadership Quote by Brad Sherman

There is a politician's modesty in the opening move, but it’s the weaponized kind: Sherman casts “another Brad Sherman” as merely “annoying,” a manageable nuisance for a system built to absorb ego, ambition, and self-regard. It’s a line that pretends to shrink the speaker while quietly asserting his recognizability. You don’t get to be “annoying” at scale unless you matter in the room.

Then the sentence pivots into something almost science-fictional: “a new level of human being.” That phrase is doing a lot of work. It signals a fear that the problem isn’t a bad actor or even a trend, but a category break - the arrival of a kind of person for whom existing norms, laws, and social antibodies don’t function. In political rhetoric, that’s a tell: it reframes a policy or institutional concern as an existential one. Society can “deal with” ordinary vanity; it might not be able to “deal with” the post-ordinary.

Contextually, this kind of language often surfaces around technology, propaganda, or power concentrations that change incentives so radically that character itself is remade - think social media’s attention economy, AI, surveillance, or celebrity-politics feedback loops. The subtext is both warning and self-defense: don’t focus on the familiar irritants (people like me, personality politics), he implies; focus on the structural forces manufacturing something stranger, less governable.

It works because it flatters the audience’s anxiety while sounding reasonable: not panic, just a sober claim that the old tools may no longer fit the new creature.