The sense of "elites" is bs anyway.

Who is elites? People who have connections? People who live from capital instead of labor? People who or families who can make influential decisions? People who benefit from inflation? People with large realestate portfolios? People who have connections into politics?

That's nonsense, then I'm parte of the elite, then a large percentage of the upper class is elite, then lots of business owners and shareholders are elite. Everybody is elite. It's a strawmen.

the presidents are merely just puppets.

When their usefulness is outlived they are discarded or "thrown under the bus" (see Fauci).

Totally