"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Princess Bride! I love that movie!
It literally (I think) means person of importance.
As used by Agnew, I think he was being ironic and using it as persons of self-importance.
I have ONLY used the WORD ONCE that I can recall.
And I know what it means and I am referring to the ELITE LEFTISTS of wealth and privilege that run around Wash DC, SF, NY etc trying to stir up dissension in the GOP ranks.
This also refers to those LEFTISTS that just THINK they are elite and wish they came from wealth and privilege.