What I find truly ironic here is that you think that you are the smart ones, and flyover country houses the dumb ones. If you were even half as smart as you think you are, you would come to the same conclusion that Dennis Kucinich, Jim Webb, and Rahm Emanuel have already.
One major factor in your party's loss of House seats, Senate seats, the Presidency, Governorships, State Legislatures, etc. has been the total disrespect that your party shows for flyover country, and the working class. Maybe you were smart at some point but took a nasty spill off your high horse. You can't look down your nose at people, and expect their vote. You can't follow the lead of your Queen, call them deplorables, and not expect some blowback.
Another thing is that I'm not sure how trying to lift harmful regulations and grow the economy, and providing people meaningful jobs is against their self interest. How is school choice against their self interest? Keeping them on subsistence from the government tit does nothing for one's sense of self worth. But, even though I have a degree in Economics, and a lifetime of experience in business in the real word, I'm just an ignorant hillbilly from East Tennessee. What the f*** do I know?