Aleks’s Reviews > The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-truth Politics > Status Update

in the context of national populism, ‘elite’ refers to anyone with a role in an establishment institution whose job involves them, as William Davies puts ‘claiming some disembodied, dispassionate perspective, not available to the ordinary’ person. In other words, elitism in this conception isn’t to do with a person having wealth and influence, it’s to do with them being related somehow to the authority of the system.