Mr Ford, if you can count Federal Finance Ministers as close personal friends, then this makes you a member of the elite. 

Now, despite his membership among the elite, and despite my personal feelings for the man (not at all positive), I do think he has some good points here: politicians and the academics and wealthy who make up the upper echelons of society really don't care about, or actively despise the working class. As we saw from the last US election (a unique case, but not without parallels) if you even so much as hold a different opinion  than the accepted norm, you'll be branded with the worst labels our society has to throw at you: Nazi. 

best outcome is if "Ford Nation" splits the vote between Oleary and Leitch and a sensible Conservative like Michael Chong sneaks up the middle.