Today, we are blessed to exist in an age of unprecedented tumult and potential by virtue of the advent of the internet and the information age as a whole.
It wouldn't occur to Malkin to question an expression of pride on someone else's part in seeing someone of their own heritage accomplish some notable thing, unless that someone happens to be a black or even the stray Arab.
It would be hard to point to a better example than this of a representative government actually being prompted to give up a great array of its own powers through the electoral process itself.