Hinkle: Getting under the skin of the progressive elites

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Here are a couple of excerpts from an excellent column on the seething contempt progressives openly express toward the American public. It was penned by A. Barton Hinkle and appeared in Friday's edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

Shakespeare himself could not have chosen a better foil for Barack Obama than Sarah Palin. The professor and the hockey mom make the perfect pair to dramatize the ongoing contest between liberal condescension and conservative populism.

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It's a common theme in public discourse: My side is full of passionate idealism -- your side is just a bunch of angry fruitcakes. Both sides play the game, but some progressives manage to achieve a level of disdain that approaches the Olympic. The Tea Party movement's proletariat and its de facto leader, Sarah Palin, seem to bring out the worst among those who profess to care about the little guy. Calling her and her supporters dimbulbs and buffoons only stokes populist resentment, of course, so the mockery plays right into her note-covered hand.

Read Hinkle's column in its entirety here.

- JP