Even by the standards of the modern right the conflation of class with conservative culture war markers here is pretty extraordinary. The couple was 'defending' a literal mansion https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1277604130970886148 …
For my part, I think both groups are too damn focused on competing with each other to show anywhere near enough oblige to justify the noblesse.
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Does anybody enjoy genuine cultural elite status and not economic elite status though? My inclination is to see "cultural elites" as a slippery category purpose-built to take in a lot of people who actually have little or no power.
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It depends on where you draw the income line, but I'd suggest that there are a great many journalists and academics who make only marginally more than a moderately above-average electrician, who wield cultural power disproportionate to their income and might thus be called elites
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