Elite pretty much means anyone with political and economic power. Politicians, billionaires, lobbyists, CEOs, etc. It's not a particularly fuzzy honorific. Of

Elite pretty much means anyone with political and economic power. Politicians, billionaires, lobbyists, CEOs, etc. It's not a particularly fuzzy honorific. Of course they dont like all the negative attention so sometimes they will try to designate elites as "anybody with a college degree" as one of many means of rhetorically disguising their power. For example, the economist does here: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/22/can-too-many-brainy-people-be-a-dangerous-thing https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/10/22/c...