ruling class

Each franchise examines the corrosive nature of power when it’s consolidated into an insulated ruling class or, worse, one ill-suited custodian.

Trump was born in the upper tier of the ruling class, with whom he continues to schmooze in Mar-A-Lago to make mutually profitable deals for his second term.

“I’m backing this measure because it tackles the issues Sacramento’s ruling class has created,” she wrote.

Where Tim Walz has emphasised individual freedom and what binds Americans, Vance has focused on a "ruling class" that he says has failed working families in small communities all over the country.

They will hold up Harris, a statewide officeholder for more than a dozen years, as the prime example of its destructive ruling class.