First, you're watching a puppet show. We're not getting to choose anything.
Second, you're now a democrat? If you leave your elites out, we all lose. That's the message of history.
Ah, ok. Go to China where you can really be part of the process. Done with you.
Methinks that you have confused the use of the term "elite" in the derogatory sense--i.e., the sort of phoney strutting types who Hans Christian Andersen burlesques as the Courtiers in the "Emperor's New Clothes," with those whom Jefferson & Adams discussed in their erudite correspondence, as a natural aristocracy.
The collection of big donors who call the shots for the RNC, are more like the former than the latter--their perception of the best interests of America colored by their perception of an immediate business advantage, which they are unwilling to risk by admitting that the "Emperor"--here the insane course of current Federal Policy--is intellectually naked.
The distinction is the difference between a focus on a multi-generational future & the sociopathic Keynes' remark that in the "long-run we are all dead."