The Democratic Party has been scratching its head since November 2024, still stunned that their carefully curated coalition of Ivy League academics, bureaucrats, and media pundits was upended by the very people they sneer at: everyday Americans. The irony is almost poetic. They lost because they couldn’t stop treating the working class — the men and women who actually keep this country running — like backward “rubes” in need of a lecture.
Conversely, I had dinner with a bunch of professors the other day and I don’t think the right is prepared for the radicalization of formerly centrist types against them https://t.co/tYPYdsEpCd
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) August 17, 2025
It’s the same mistake they’ve been making for years. Rather than listening to the frustrations of families dealing with inflation, crime, and crumbling schools, Democrats leaned harder into their brand of condescension, packaging it as “education” and “expertise.” But when your “smarts” never translate into results for people living outside the Beltway or the faculty lounge, it doesn’t look like wisdom. It looks like arrogance.
On the one hand you have 14 year olds who want to say the n word. On the other hand you have highly educated former voices of moderation in their cohort, who have been pushed to the point of spending the rest of their lives on a mission to destroy the right. Good luck!
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) August 17, 2025
Take James Medlock, a darling of the online Left. He’s emblematic of the whole problem: quick with generalities, high on smug platitudes, allergic to any opinion outside his bubble. He’s even blocked conservative writers who have never spoken to him, which tells you all you need to know about how the “party of tolerance” actually handles disagreement.
How many centrist professors are there though? Can’t be many these days
— MakewiEatsSpam (@MakewiEatsSpam) August 17, 2025
But Democrats can’t get enough of it. They celebrate this behavior as if it’s intellectual courage. They mistake snobbery for strength. Just look at the way they still gush over Kamala Harris — the same Kamala Harris who, after four years as vice president, became the face of condescension without competence. Her word salads were treated like philosophical insight in leftist circles, even as ordinary Americans laughed at the absurdity.
Wouldn’t expect conservatives to understand academia since they’ve generally self selected out of it, but most professors are not radical gender studies people. They all vote dem because that’s the only game left in town for educated peoplehttps://t.co/KWAUl1F3A7
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) August 17, 2025
This is why the party sits at a 19% approval rating. The more they double down on elitist posturing, the more they alienate the voters who decide elections — people who don’t care about the latest jargon from academia but who do care about being able to afford groceries, walk safely in their neighborhoods, and raise their children without government interference.
