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Did the Yale students vote against your side and pick the winner? Easy for them to say “reject elite institutions” when they have an all-access pass to those institutions

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The most successful oligarchs right now -- like, say, J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel -- are those who are squarely (aggressively!) elite, and who use elite institutions (SCOTUS, the Senate, ICE, lawsuits against Gawker) to exercise power over the less powerful, but who have mastered the ability to play at appearing to be populists angry at the elite.

As Lampedusa writes in The Leopard, "things will have to change, if we want things to stay as they are".

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