Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

Democrats Pay High Price for Liberal Smugness

Sneering at the white working class is not a campaign strategy.

April 28, 2016 at 5:09 PM UTC

Ramesh Ponnuru is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the editor of National Review and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Take that, elitists.
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Emmett Rensin wants his fellow liberals to stop being so condescending.

In an essay for Vox, he dissects what he calls “the smug style in American liberalism.” It is a strain of liberalism that attributes disagreement with its tenets to stupidity and ignorance, and responds to that disagreement with mockery. It delights in evidence, however dubious, that liberals are intellectually superior to conservatives.