No ,the problem is that you're branding as "elitist" anyone who challenges the way you think society ought to be organized, in fact, anyone who disagrees with exactly how you think society ought to be organized. You are hoping to dismiss your critics as effete overintellectualized weaklings and, by extension, those with your views as take-charge, roll-up-your-sleeves, hard-workin', salt of the earth types. It's so transparent that you must have convinced yourself of the truth of this, you're too bright to think you could con anyone into believing it unless you had.

Yeah, all liberals are rich parasites living in ivory towers who want something for nothing and all conservatives are humble, down-home, common Volk just trying to get ahead by working hard and doing their job. And if it wasn't for those know-it-all liberals they'd be doing all right, too.

I guess this all started with Pat Nixon's "plain Republican cloth coat", eh?
The proletarization of the Republican self-image begins with the depiction of the Democratic constituency as Volvo-driving preppies with too much time on their hands and money in their pockets who have never worked a day in their lives. Sorry, you may have fooled your wannabee supporters, and you may even have fooled yourselves, but you haven't fooled anyone else and you certainly haven't fooled me. I know an elitist when I see one, it's someone who has contempt for the kind of people who work for him.