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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Elitist” isn’t just someone with an elite education and/or association with elite institutions (arguably both Pete and Warren fall in this category.)

“Elitist” is someone who lords that over the rest of us, explicitly or usually less so, explaining how they know better than the people they are preaching to what those same people need/want, and how to get it for them. In Warren’s case, for free.

Elitist is largely a label of perception. Someone upthread mentioned GWB - the ultimate elitist - but no one would describe him as such based on what or how he spoke.

This is Warren’s problem, as well as the reason Pete is popular in the Midwest, as well as why Cory Booker is not doing better - Cory comes across as “I know better than you.” Perceptions are reality, in politics and often in life.[/quote]

Interesting that the woman and the black man have these problems but the white man does not. Maybe Americans only like being told “I know better than you” by one rather than the others?[/quote]

GWB ran against John Kerry. Two super elite background white dudes. Yet who got stuck with the tag? The Boston Brahmin. [/quote]

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