It's part of the casual contempt Democrats have for the views of normal people.

I looked up to see Aurora take the bit of cloth from the air with casual contempt, and start back up the hill.

Pascoe was never quite certain just how genuine his superior's casual contempt for science was.

The fellow still holding Jack by the scruff of the neck grinned and shook his victim with casual contempt.

Her voice showed casual contempt for weakness.

It made him treat tricky bits of rock-work with a numb, casual contempt.

Enter Keith Carradine as a seeming drifter, with just the right degree of casual contempt to intrigue the wife.

The chauffeur came around the car and spit the cigarette stub out of his mouth with casual contempt.

Some contemporaries and biographers of Lincoln tend to treat Lamon with a certain casual contempt.

He ought not to have attempted blackmail and then struck me with such casual contempt.