Why Does the GOP Elite Hate Its Own Base?

The GOP elite's contempt for its own voters

• The trend accelerated during the 2009-2011 rise of the Tea Party, a grassroots movement fueled by constitutionalism and anti-elite populism.
• During the 2012 presidential coronation of private equity plutocrat Mitt Romney, the Republican establishment fought tooth-and-nail against presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the two candidates who most vociferously condemned the establishment’s shortcomings.
• The Trump presidency saw the continuation of the same basic dynamic
• Republican voters, by nominating a loudmouth non-politician like Trump, were clamoring for something new.
• With precious few exceptions, the conservative intelligentsia refused to treat Trump's deviations from previous decades' failed orthodoxies as anything other than a blip on the radar.

https://spectator.org/why-does-the-gop-elite-hate-its-own-base/