The left doesn’t understand it, because it’s part of their worldview.
It’s not about how rich or how educated someone is that makes them elitist.
It’s about their attitude towards others. That somehow, they “know better”, or can possibly have more knowledge about the situations that people are in than sumation of the knowledge the millions of people that are actually IN those situations.
They think that they, from their ivory tower, can make more informed decisions than the individuals in the situations requiring the decisions.
I think it’s a signal about how great America is, where else can a Black Kid raised by a single mother become an elitist?
That’s Social Mobility in the USA for you that the Europeans can only dream about.
It’s worse than that. They believe no one other than them (the elites) has enough intelligence to determine what’s good for the individual.
The day someone tries to tell me to my face that they know better than I do what is good for me is the day that person retires from the elitist mindset with a shattered ego.