Who are the “elites” MAGA keeps talking about?When they say "elites" they mean the people who are authorities, both in the sense that they are authorities on topics of mastery, and also in the sense that what they say goes.
Because what all these sorts of people have in common is that they are arbiters of truth. The scientist tells us the truth of nature. The philosopher tells us the truth of philosophy. The historian tells us the truth of history. The journalist tells us the truth of current events. The artist tells us the truth of the human condition. The teacher tells us the truth of the topics they teach, and the librarian hands out books full of truths in all topics imaginable.
And they do not like the truths that these parties tell them very much, and they have come to bitterly resent that those parties get to tell them what the truth is.
That resentment has a name: anti-intellectualism.
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In other times and places, the set of people designated intellectuals has been drawn much broader, such that it included, well, whomever it was convenient or appealing for it to contain.
Take for example during Mao's Cultural Revolution. It was originally persecuted by the "Red Guards". The Red Guards were predominantly middle schoolers. You know: tweens. Also high school students. They kicked things off by beating to death their teachers.
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In other times and places, the set of people designated intellectuals has been drawn much broader, such that it included, well, whomever it was convenient or appealing for it to contain.
Take for example during Mao's Cultural Revolution. It was originally persecuted by the "Red Guards". The Red Guards were predominantly middle schoolers. You know: tweens. Also high school students. They kicked things off by beating to death their teachers.
tl;dr They’re talking about you, who doesn’t own a company and works for someone who does and likely has a college education and knows things.