liberal elite
Progressive ruling class
Liberal elite is a disparaging term for educated, affluent progressives perceived as out of touch with ordinary people.
The phrase implies that coastal urbanites, academics, and media figures hold condescending attitudes toward working-class values while wielding disproportionate cultural influence: The liberal elite doesn't understand what life is like in small-town America.
Critics use it to suggest hypocrisy—championing diversity while living in homogeneous neighborhoods, or advocating policies whose costs fall on others.
- leftistAdvocate for progressive politics
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
- East CoastAmerica's eastern shoreline
- intelligentsiaEducated, intellectual class
- ivory towerSheltered intellectual enclave
affluent · educated · professional class · cosmopolitan · virtue signaling · bourgeoisie · out of touch · think tanks · influential · secular · mainstream media · privileged · social activism · policy wonk · champagne socialist · woke · wine · urbanite
liberal eliteworking class
Manual laborers collectively
blue-collar workers · silent majority · common people · Middle America · salt of the earth
liberal elitesilent majority
Presumed moderate, publicly mute multitude
forgotten man · common man · grassroots · the people · man on the street
liberal, elite, liberals, liberalism, liberalize, liberalization, liberally, illiberal, liberty