"Global elites" is a misunderstood term. They aren't primarily the politicians. They're the NGOs, corporations, media conglomerates, academic institutions, pressure groups and bureaucrats that shape the views and policies of politicians. They aren't always successful. https://twitter.com/Meijiro26/status/1348724062500118528

Politicians range from those who are 100% agents of that ecosystem (Buttigieg, Clinton, Blair) and those who are 100% independent of them (Orban, Salvini, Bolso).

But there are also plenty of politicians who are in between those two extremes. Boris Johnson is one example.

There are also countries that are completely outside the ecosystem. Hungary has shaken off most of it, Poland is also in the process of doing so. Russia and China were obviously never a part of it (but you still probably wouldn't want to live in the latter).

And then there are the in-between countries, like Japan and South Korea. You'll still find all the leftist NGOs in those countries, whereas you wouldn't in Hungary. But the culture of those countries is simply too old, resilient and complex to be fully captured by outside forces.