Average people observably have many of their opinions assigned to them by elites. Take Ukraine for example. I assure you that if our elites favored Russia, the “average people” would all have Russian flags in their profiles.

In those cases where average people and elites do disagree, such as border security, the elites reliably get their way.

And yes I’ve seen the shoddy attempts to refute the Princeton study. They’re unconvincing.