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  • This flies in the face of all the talk that this is the year of the anti-elite as represented by the Tea Party explosion.

    Will Harvard grads win in the year of anti-elitism? Edward Schumacher-Matos 2010

  • While Louis B. Mayer and MGM were making movies conveying an optimistic vision of God, country and family during the 1930s and early 1940s, Warner Bros. and smaller independents produced films like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" 1939 that articulated anti-corporate, anti-elite messages challenging the power of the wealthy.

    Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross 2011

  • But to pretend that Palin isn't part of the ruling elite (and thus ostensibly "part of the problem") as opposed to her self-construction as an anti-elite crusader, is to dangerously "misunderestimate" (to quote the quintessential example) the lockstep power of the media in constructing our shared reality.

    Randall Amster: First Amendment Remedies: Hey, Sarah, Refudiate This Randall Amster 2011

  • So maybe this is the year of the anti-elite, after all.

    Will Harvard grads win in the year of anti-elitism? Edward Schumacher-Matos 2010

  • Eventually, the right will disappear because it is anti-intellectual, anti-elite, and anti-learning.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco 2010

  • That would make this a fairly logical and consistent “anti-elite” (or, sigh, anti edumacation) attack.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Wine Track 2010

  • And I think that's feeding some of this anti-intellectual, anti-elite attitude that you're talking about, because they see people who don't have to abide by the rest of it like we do.

    Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords 2010

  • And I think that's feeding some of this anti-intellectual, anti-elite attitude that you're talking about, because they see people who don't have to abide by the rest of it like we do.

    Decoding 2010 Political Attack Buzzwords 2010

  • To link Islamophobia, hostile anti-elite views to violent acts I think is wrong.

    Norway Massacre Highlights Europe's Growing Far Right 2011

  • Eventually, the right will disappear because it is anti-intellectual, anti-elite, and anti-learning

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco 2010

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  • anti-elite, adj.

    Pete Paphides, 21 October 2018:

    No BBC email trying to justify its platforming of Bannon can do so by using the word “anti-elite” – a term coined by alt-right disrupters with the specific purpose of cloaking dangerous ideas in populist language. Their goal, as Nicola Sturgeon says, is to normalise those ideas.

    December 31, 2018