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I'm not actually thinking anything about your comment or the parent comment. But I wanted to share that the characterization of the "elitism of center-left liberal elites" makes my gut reaction to dismiss your comment. The same thing happens with I see something like "right extremist Q" or whatever the vernacular is.

Is there a better, perhaps more clinical, way to more narrowly describe these kinds of groups? Or is that the right way to say it and my own bias is being applied?

I think it’s mostly accurate, but you’d probably want to add a few more adjectives like East Coast, Ivy League, pro-Establishment (as in, not “punk”), neoliberal, etc.

Well, he/she did use the word elite twice in the same sentence....

Isn't that what unchecked capital accumulation is too, where trickle down is supposed to protect the little people who would mess things up if they had more decision power (represented by capital)?

it's more the ruling class, that includes both left and right.