This is the key point. And one that confuses so many Americans. These elites do not hate America in the sense of an enemy like Bin Laden who wants to see the country physically destroyed. These elitists really hate the idea of American Liberty as understood at the time of the Founding. These are people who feel they should rule unfettered. And that liberty for the common man has denied them their birthright.
Traitors like this have been with us since the beginning. But they are now ascendant in a way not seen since Reconstruction.
I intended to add my thought that liberals are liberals because, as Ann Coulter says, "they would be God." They are in rebellion against God and will have nothing to do with the first two Commandments. This is the bedrock definition of arrogance and it has been known to the Judeo-Christian tradition for thousands of years.
At root, the leftist is the most arrogant creature abroad in the world and his arrogance cost 100 million lives in the last century. What is a mere hauty disregard for the American electorate in comparison?