Possibly trollish sarcasm aside, I didn't say anything about elites, only about organization. It's more important that there's a hierarchy who can say "no, we d

Possibly trollish sarcasm aside, I didn't say anything about elites, only about organization. It's more important that there's a hierarchy who can say "no, we don't support this person" with the rest of the group's implicit backing when something inevitably goes wrong. This means that your group is at the mercy of a figurehead, but that figurehead may or may not ruin the group. Leaving it up to the whims of your membership tends that probability towards 1.