I’ve wanted to write this for a while, and I haven’t heard or read anyone put these two words together before. My only hesitation is using this language of the left against them. Some say that is how you defeat them, others that it is how you become them. And nobody wants that!

We’ve heard a lot about privilege in the last four or five years. I think it is a real thing. We may not have always called it that, but I think we have always understood what it is. The populist wave sweeping the electorate this time around might talk about the elites and the people. The implicit dynamic is that the elites have something that they use to make their lives easier, and that the people lacking it have a much harder time achieving the same ends. Maybe its money, maybe its power, maybe its connections. Maybe its private schooling, a good credit history or growing up in a two-parent home. Whatever it is, it is undeniable that they have it and we don’t.