Last fall I wrote a three-part series, which I posted on this site, on “Sarah Palin and the Politics of Elitism” (which you can read here, here, and here). My thesis was that the vitriol poured on Palin by the cultural elites stemmed from their insufferable snobbery and the fact that she was not one of them, that her fundamental worldview, shaped as it was by her roots in small town America and the Alaska outback, clashed with the outlook of those whose ideas had been molded by the Ivy League.

Those are still my views, and I’m pleased to find that they are shared by others, as well. See, for example, Yuval Levin’s excellent essay in the February issue of Commentary. However, in recent weeks I’ve become aware of another ingredient in the mix, something so subtle that I missed it at first, but which I now believe to be a significant factor in the elites’ almost deranged hatred of Sarah Palin. Read more »