Even though their predictions are always wrong. Even though our “conspiracy theories” turn out to be right. Even though they can’t tell the difference between men and women. Etc. With all these things they still seem to mean it when they say that they are better and smarter than the rest of us.
Now compare that with Democratic leaders. Harris. Newsom. Schumer. AOC. Sanders. The contrast is stark: These are people who couldn't change your oil or run a fast food franchise. There is zero evidence of any kind of real-world competency in this crowd. They are grifters who can talk and tell people what they want to hear, and that's about it. And at some level they know that, the entire Democratic party knows that for all the preponderance of queer studies PhDs and liberal arts degrees they have, they don't have remotely the competence of the plumbers and restaurant owners and farmers and factory workers that make up the base of the GOP. And that's very difficult for them to accept.