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The contempt shown towards the working classes who voted for Brexit by the academic Left is really transferred rage for the fact that the proletariat consistently refuse to play the radical political role the intellectuals have ordained for them more generally.
The working classes aren't an homogenous bloc, but many of them tend to do things like vote Tory, or vote Labour only when it's not a radical left party, or support the monarchy, or be sceptical of radical change. These are unforgivable sins in the eyes of the intellectuals
Brexit gave these intellectuals an excuse to vent their spleen at these people. Given that such intellectuals are invariably middle class, a good dollop of snobbery was chucked in as well to give us a toxic brew of hatred for the plebs dressed up as 'progressivism'
But the working classes are perfectly sensible to take the broad view that most of them tend to. They want concrete, realistic gains over wild utopian fantasies. They are suspicious of the puritanical/fun-sucking tendencies of the 'progressives', and with good reason
In a broader sense, the masses haven't fared very well when the Marxists/far left have actually got their grubby hands on power, have they? Kronstadt comes to mind.
