You were doing fine until you muddled up “elitist” with “elite”. Milton Friedman was truly elite as opposed to the other poseurs out there who shallow and intellectually dishonest are elitist in their attitude
The term “Intellectual Elite” goes back to the late 1800’s and the Fabian Socialist Movement which spawned such terms and concepts as “Progressivism” and justified the mass killing of certain classes of people.