This reminds me of a piece Glenn Greenwald wrote after Trump won the election. He'd been saying the same thing for a while but Clinton's loss finally proved his point:

> opinion-making elites were so clustered, so incestuous, so far removed from the people who would decide this election — so contemptuous of them — that they were not only incapable of seeing the trends toward Trump but were unwittingly accelerating those trends with their own condescending, self-glorifying behavior.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/democrats-trump-and-the-...

Many of the most influential journalists and politicians are shockingly out of touch with (and often hostile towards) the everyday people they're supposed to represent. It's now painfully clear that the media has little or no interest in reporting the truth, they want to create it themselves.