It is actually the Elites who are staging an insurrection. Always has been.
We were founded as an experiment in democracy, a Republic, a grand experiment in a Country run by, and for, the common man.
Remember the little ditty, "Yankee Doodle"? Of course you do. It was a song sung by Brits making fun of our supposed backwardness, our simpleness. "Riding on a Pony" "Stuck a feather in his cap and called it 'Macaroni'"? 'Macaroni in those days was a High End Restaurant in London, very high end, and people dressed to the Max when they attended.
They called 'Yankee Doddle' a 'Dandy' which is an insult.
The poem by Emma Lazarus is, IMO, written to tell people that we don't need the Over-Educated, the Sophisticates, the Royals or the Peerage to run our lives. We can do it ourselves. Just send us the poor and unwashed of EUROPE and we'll show you.
We did, too. Bigly. France tried to imitate us but they, of course, fucked it up. shock
I digress. Point being, the Elites, the Over-Educated, the 'Royals' and their 'Peerage' are still convinced that they, and only they, are entitled to run our Country.
Do you think it's an accident that 90% of our Presidents and presidential candidates lately have come from the Ivy League?