Um, no.
Or Trump wouldn't have been president.
And brainless morons like AOC wouldn’t be on the national stage.
Last time I looked, AOC not only did NOT go to an elite school, her only claim to fame before politics was that she was a bar tender.
Trump was an outlier.
He gamed the system and broke it. Some college friends worked in Poly Sci (campaign managers), and HATE Trump for basically disrupting the industry.
They were the ones who carefully managed who got the support and funds to run. Their whole life was selling access, and you do that by connections. Trump had enough money and connections to bypass them, but in 2017 one told me that “No one who works with Trump will ever be in politics again. We will not allow it!” A good part of the Never Trump movement was the Ivy (and some other schools) elite trying to protect their club
AOC I will be honest I have no idea how Crazy Eyes got there. I am willing to concede that one.