"Elites" is a Right-Wing Slur Word

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It has also become a left-wing slur word, but with a slightly different nuance.

To conservatives, there is a class of "liberal elites" who live on the coasts, drink white wine, eat brie and avocado toast, have Ph.Ds in obscure subjects, drive Priuses, and look down their noses at the Real Americans in Real America - the good folks who drink beer, own guns and love Jesus. To the Enlightened Left, the elites are the Corporatist Democrats (whatever that means) who are insufficiently woke and who therefore occasionally deviate from the required progressive party line. These elites also look down their noses at the Real Americans, but in this case the Real Americans are the oppressed proletariat. Either way, "elite" is a stupid, false characterization. Let the GOP be stupid; Democrats can't afford to be doing this kind of shit.