People in more than 2/3 of the Parliamentary seats voted to leave.
Less than 1/3 of MPs supported leave.
This has always been the elites against the people - same as Trump.
Two out of four constituent nations in the uk voted stay. The Scots voted 63% stay and all of their counties voted stay. Why should they be forced out?
Elites against the people? Hillary won two percent more of the popular bite than Trump but both you and me are glad that the “people” ie the popular vote winner didn’t win.
The fact is that many of “the people” are equally divided
AND most of the Brexit leaders ARE elites. Rees mogg is an old Etonian as is Boris Johnson. Ditto for Nigel Farage from Dulwich colley, though not as posh as Rees Mogg.
It is not the simple people vs elite and not the simple question you are stating