Gee, what were the odds that George Will would dust off one of his oh-those-silly-out-of-touch-elite Democrats columns to phone into his Washington Post editors today? 

The iconic public intellectual of liberal condescension was Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter, who died in 1970 but whose spirit still permeated that school when Obama matriculated there in 1981. Hofstadter pioneered the rhetorical tactic that Obama has revived with his diagnosis of working-class Democrats as victims -- the indispensable category in liberal theory. The tactic is to dismiss rather than refute those with whom you disagree.

Obama's dismissal is: Americans, especially working-class conservatives, are unable, because of their false consciousness, to deconstruct their social context and embrace the liberal program. Today that program is to elect Obama, thereby making his wife at long last proud of America.

Hofstadter dismissed conservatives as victims of character flaws and psychological disorders -- a "paranoid style" of politics rooted in "status anxiety," etc. Conservatism rose on a tide of votes cast by people irritated by the liberalism of condescension.

Oh, George, surely you get the irony, sitting there with your natural hair toupee and throwing around all your fancy, high-falutin' words (although I notice you judiciously avoided them in this particular piece) and your affected airs.

 Now let's review your Wikipedia bio, George: 

George graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and attended Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut (B.A.). He received his M.A. from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. His 1968 Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society. 

Will then taught political philosophy at James Madison College, at Michigan State University, and at the University of Toronto. He taught at Harvard University in 1995 and again in 1998. From 1970 to 1972, he served on the staff of Senator Gordon Allott (R-CO).

Oh, yeah, George, you "get" my "story." You "get" my experience living in blue-collar, working-class, inner-ring, suburbia, where college aspirations were looked down on with all the contempt you and your ridiculous Republican spin-meisters hold for latte-drinking, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading, urban cultural elites. 

My god, George, have you no shame? 

Certainly Obama should never have characterized small-town Americans the way he did, but to pretend that you know more about what it means to struggle against economic adversity and bigotry than he does is disingenuous at best and diabolically cynical at worst. 

Enjoy that big fat RNC paycheck waiting for you when you get home. You earned it.