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expressvPN.com slash Ben. Well, it seems that there is this great vast gap that has now emerged between the so-called elites in our society and everybody else. And it's not really a partisan gap so much as it is a gap in mentality. I've said before that I think that we should be careful of labeling people elite versus elitist because there is a difference.

And there are a lot of people who are elite who are not elitists. And there are a lot of people who are not particularly elite who are elitists. Elite can be defined in many ways. Elite can be defined economically. It can be defined intellectually. It can be defined educationally. But being an elitist is a mentality that says the rules simply don't apply to you because you are of the special ilk.

You are more special than everybody else. But being an elitist is a mentality that says the rules simply don't apply to you because you are of the special ilk.

You are more special than everybody else.

And being an elitist also comes along with a fair amount of dissociation from things that you are not you.

You dissociate from things that are not you.

You're not like other human beings.

You are better than other human beings.

And this is

a mentality that has set in, particularly among the coastal blue area elitists. And it really is having

a vast impact on our politics. And there's been a lot of talk in the past few years about why

President Trump won in 2016. And people seem to think that it's because of a basket of economic

policies. People who want to intellectualize Trump's victory, they'll say things like, well, you know, it's because he was for tariffs, or because President Trump was harsh on China or because he doesn't like illegal immigration. They'll say it had something to do with policy. I think it has very, very little to do with policy and a lot to do with a feeling from many people in the middle of the country that people who are in positions

of power don't really care about people like them and think that they are not held subject to

the same rules. And that is sort of the common theme of modern American politics, is the people

constantly being disappointed by politicians who suggest that they are one of the people,

that they have a heart for the people, and then when it comes time to actually apply the rules, they don't apply the rules to themselves.

And this is why the story of Nancy Pelosi going to get her hair blow-dried in the middle of a pandemic

is so rich for Republicans to mind because it does demonstrate, once again, that a lot of Democrats

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