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Are elites just whoever you don’t like?

What Bernie Sanders gets right about billionaires

Who actually counts as an elite in America?

The Argument ran its own poll on elite perception, and the results complicate a lot of conventional wisdom. Billionaires and celebrities are the only groups a majority of Americans call elite. College professors, journalists, and people with graduate degrees barely register. Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesia…

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