but that's more spin what the economic elite are. the bourgeoisie today are understood to just be the college educated, not the executive class. reframing the middle class or just "the type of person who would get a college education" as the economic elite doesn't make any sense, but it's a fun way to frame leftist action as just being economic elite while the rightwing that preserves traditional hierarchy and opposes giving the those outside that hierarchy more money and power as the real anti-economic elite option for the people they overtly want to give less protections and benefits too is pure spin. also reagan and neoliberalism is about freeing the economic elite from constraints of "leftwing" policy (nixon created the epa). it's like how restoring a monarchy, giving them back the power is essentially "liberating" them.
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