Elites

“We saw through many examples in the past few years that our elites are, in some ways, failing us. We're talking, if we think about COVID, the summer of 2020, if we think about October seventh, and we think about what happened in the past few weeks these are ex…”

“For a long time, the elites would make a ton of money, and then they would just, like, constantly money launder all their money through, like, these fake nonprofits that just, like, made the world worse instead of actually going and building, like, just a huge…”

“Especially the more elite you are, the, you know, the fancier, fancier you are, you signal that you're elite and fancy, not by analyzing the amazing new technologies that we have now, but by problematizing them.”

“In times when trust gets eroded in the public, you know, places for news, that the elites all retreat to very expensive newsletters.”

“Now people can go online and just see how yeah, how, how mentally limited a lot of elites are just by looking at their Twitter profiles, or the things that they say, things that they write about, whatever expressions that they have online,”

“I think populism is a reaction to the failure of elites.”

“They act as the bodyguard for the elite, for the establishment. They are stenographers for the people in power.”

“Frankly elites don't deserve a lot of trust, you know, because they've messed up so many other things, you know, Like from the, you know, the Afghanistan intelligence, the Iraq intelligence to lots of the early official misinformation on COVID.”

“I think that 2020, if 2016 was an economic repudiation of the elites, 2020 is a cultural repudiation of the elites. That is the big issue in 2020.”

“The pure liberal arts education that is explicitly not career focused, that doesn't make any claims about whether it's going to be relevant to a job later, that's an education that was pioneered for and by elites.”