[Ads-l] elite, n.

[Joel Berson]

It used to be the "effete East".  Is it now the "elite East"?  (And "the press" is Eastern -- I'm sure the speaker was thinking of The New York Times and the Washington Post.)


Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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Surely we're familiar with the relatively recent right-wing populist use of
"elites" as a disparaging term.  OED isn't.

I find a useful citation I jotted on a scrap of paper within the past three
or four months. It comes from a recent TV show, though I can't say
precisely what:

"The elites - the press, Harvard, the East Coast establishment."

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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