Many of these same elites supported and voted for Mr. Obama in 2008. Am I the only one who remembers this? Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, Kathleen Parker, Colin Powell, etc., etc... They said Sarah Palin was too dumb, a Christer, too conservative, blah, blah, blah or that having a black president would heal all the wounds, yada, yada, yada or that fresh, bold ideas were needed, humina, humina, humina...
The whole Atlantic Slope urbanite scene is really divorcing from America -- both the people, and the idea of America. They're steeped in Hamiltonian b.s. about "empire without the King", and they don't even particularly like representative democracy.
Keep in mind, too, that Hamilton, in the last five issues or so of The Federalist, vigorously attacked the idea of a Bill of Rights. That says a lot, but it's never taught or even discussed: but here we have all around us the sequelae of Hamilton's egotistical, self-privileging worldview, and now it's shared by millions, and by a huge majority of those closest to the political centers of power.
As for what they think of the rest of us, here's a primer (and be sure to expand and have a look at the embedded links to the David Frum comments linked on his site, and to the Commentary article that kicked it all off):