Populism is having a moment.
Most associate it with Trump’s MAGA movement, but consider Kamala Harris’s constant insistence that she was “raised in a middle-class family” and Gavin Newsom’s “everyman” persona despite the elite upbringing of both.
The elites in politics, entertainment, academia and even corporate America are infected with the desire to be seen as the everyman. Our social media feeds are full of multimillionaires and legacy Ivy League graduates trying to convince us that they are just like us. Our elites are hiding their elitism from us.
