The chattering class - They don't know ordinary Americans and don't like them anyway

Ann Althouse is getting more explicit about her increasing aggravation with the Mandarin Class bien pensant.  In this particular case, the always shallow David Brooks.  From The central question is too "complex" for David Brooks... that is, it involves understanding the people he doesn't want to understand.

At the end, he pivots: "This campaign is about toughness... but it’s also about identity and class." And it's here that Haley falls short. She "does better among more educated voters... and she does poorly among evangelicals, which these days is as much a nationalist identity category as a religious one."

You don't want to understand them, you want to leave them to the historians, but you are willing to cast aspersions on their religiosity and their patriotism. 

Matt Yglesias, David Brooks, all the chattering glass mumblers - they are just getting tiresome and do not actually add much in terms of either new information or new insight.  You have to go outside the mainstream media and the approved narrative for anything that interesting.