SALENA ZITO: Dems Appeal to ‘Progressives,’ Not All Americans.

Most of this country wants to elect a president in 2016 who is for all the people, from Baltimore, Md., to New Baltimore, Pa., and beyond.

President Obama has celebrated that he is not, nor ever intended to be, such a leader.

He has used his position as one of deep correction, to change what his elite and academic prisms view as a deeply flawed country.

Those corrections were not made in the spirit of taking us together to a better place. Instead, they have been bitterly divisive and intended to produce “justice.” . . .

Earlier this month, Harvard-educated lifelong Manhattanite Josh Barro, a New York Times reporter, tweeted: “Whenever I’m in a plane over middle America, I look down and think, ‘That’s where 2 Broke Girls viewers live.’”

Those 20 contempt-laced words explain how many in the national press view the rest of the country, and they reflect how many progressives view Main Street.

Like Mae West, they used to try to conceal their contempt. Now they don’t care who knows it.