I think there's a terminological confusion here. "Liberal" in its American, Hillary-Clinton-esque sense is of course going to be favored by highly-educated pro

I think there's a terminological confusion here. "Liberal" in its American, Hillary-Clinton-esque sense is of course going to be favored by highly-educated professionals: it's designed for us. It's our class ideology. If you like immigration because it brings in competitive STEM workers and only eliminates jobs Americans don't want to do, it might be because you view yourself as educationally and professionally advantaged enough to afford to suppress wages for everyone else. If you like the idea of piecemeal reform packages crafted by lobbyists and haggling (like Obamacare), it might be because you've been trained to think of committees of experts as the best way of accomplishing, well, anything. If you want to tax smokestack industries out of existence because blue-collar workers can just learn to code, it might be because you've spent so much time among people with postgraduate degrees that you've come to think of yourself as normal rather than as belonging to an identifiable class. And so on and so forth.