" the central problem with global elites remains a sort of retrograde tribalism. For all the grand talk of being citizens of the world, they really owe their limited allegiances only to like kind—westernized elites with proper credentials—or rather, to the systems and fonts of their wealth and success. They are like the royal families of Europe before World War I, incestuously related and essentially more akin to each other than to their constituents. "

― Victor Davis Hanson , The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America