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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