Steve Sailer points to this keen psychological insight made by Spotted Toad, on how and why the Progressive Left (which is still dominated by upscale, self-hating whites) has tacked Hard Left in recent years:
The elite has shifted left, especially on racial issues, for many reasons, but surely the largest is simply that they would like to remain the elite, and this is contingent on their appearing to represent the broader population. As the broader population, in the country and in the world, shifts demographically to resemble the elite less and less in ancestry, religion, and temperament, the contortions required of the elite to establish itself as worthy of trust are ever more extreme.
