The two ideas are not mutually exclusive....but TS is right, there is a lot of bubble isolation among them, and they really don’t know how out of touch they are with the universe outside the beltway.
This so called “inability to articulate” is purposeful. Playing dumb as a post is a strategy as old as the hills and effective.
Falling for it is worse. These guys display tongues of silver when it’s about them or their own re-election.
The ones who can articulate it, and “get it” like Bachmann, for example, are marginalized and run off.