“law degrees in China and at Oxford” and an MBA from Stanford but “no real way to use the skills [we] were on the verge of contributing to the American economy.” Trump’s xenophobia is terrible in its own right, and its effects will be catastrophic at every level. And yet…and yet the subtext of this op-ed is the author’s disorientation: she did everything right to ensure that her membership in the global elite would exempt her from politics, but her plans just aren’t working out.