05.03.2017 - 10:49 [ Real Clear Politics ]

Is the American Elite Really Elite?

The sometimes undisciplined and loud Trump is certainly not a member of the familiar ruling cadre, which dismisses him as a crude and know-nothing upstart who should never have been elected president. (Had Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and served a full term, a member of either the Bush or Clinton families would have president for 24 years of a 32-year span.)

But who, exactly, makes up these disgruntled elite classes?