The elite ruling class harbors deep disdain for the unwashed masses who refuse to get in line behind its agenda. The Left’s leaders often keep their disgust hidden, but occasionally it slips out.
Barack Obama notoriously let the mask slip in April 2008. Of working-class voters in old industrial towns, the Democratic candidate for president said, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Obama initially stood by his comments, but then said he would “deeply regret” the comments if any Americans were offended.
Hillary Clinton, campaigning against Obama at the time in the Democratic primaries, condemned his remarks as “demeaning,” “elitist,” and “out of touch.”
Yet in 2016, she notoriously said: “You…
