The New York Times Magazine
3/1/2017
How ‘Elites’ Became One of the Nastiest Epithets in American Politics. For much of American history, anti-elite sentiment was a matter of up versus down, not left versus right. The 20th century changed that. Text by Beverly Gage. Art Direction by Matt Willey.
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