No, you made fun of uneducated hicks. But the working class in the U.S. today is largely made up of uneducated hicks, which is why the Democrats are no longer the party of the working class.
The partisan divisions between Democrats and Republicans today mirror deep social divisions between educated urbanites on the coasts and uneducated rural Americans in the interior. Clinton won
every one of America’s 493 wealthiest counties, which are almost all urban (
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce).
The West has become a meritocratic knowledge economy, where the educated and adaptive 20 per cent reap the rewards while the uneducated provincial middle and working class see their quality of life relentlessly declining. 15 years ago it was not socially acceptable for liberals to mock the working class and poor. Now, s######ing contempt is perfectly acceptable because, after all, it's those morons' own fault. Why can't they all just learn to write code, move to Seattle, and get a condo?
The problem is what to do with the losers who can't adapt to new economic and social realities. Mocking them probably isn't a great solution, seeing as they still (for now) have the vote, and have shown themselves willing and able to throw a spanner in the works just to destroy the machine of progress.