It’s been a good while since Katie Couric was relevant, but she’s found herself back in the spotlight this week for her elitist take on Donald Trump and his supporters.

Couric, the former network news anchor, was invited by lefty Bill Maher to join him on his “Club Random” podcast, where Maher and his guest settle into soft chairs, share a drink or two, and engage in a meandering 90-minute back-and-forth.

When the topic turned to how we absorb and interpret news and politics, Maher said that each political party believes the other is an “existential threat” and can’t be trusted. To which Couric said: “But don’t you think things changed so dramatically, Bill, when Donald Trump arrived on the scene? Because … there’s always been policy differences … but when Trump arrived on the scene, the decorum was gone. Sort of this level of basic decency evaporated. And, you know, just complete falsehoods.”

Yeah, it’s all Trump’s fault.

Maher, to his credit, has gotten sick of the Trump hatred on his side, and he’s at least tried to understand what half the country finds so appealing about the man. So he calmly came back at Couric: “Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him because what they see on the other side, to them, is even more dangerous. Because it’s closer to home. ‘My kid is coming home from school, and he thinks he’s a racist? He’s 5, what have you been telling him? My son thinks maybe he’s not a boy.’”

Maher continued: “But, you know, those kinds of things are why they say, ‘That’s why I’m voting for Trump.’ A conservative guy once said to me, ‘What you don’t get about Trump is that we don’t like him either. Now, that’s not true for all people … but lots of people, it’s like that. 'He’s all that stands between us and madness.’ That’s their view. … I would like that view presented. That view. Not election deniers, but just try to understand why even the election-denying thing is not a deal-breaker for these people. And I think they’re wrong. But I don’t hate them. And they’re not stupid.”

That Maher doesn’t hate us and doesn’t think we’re stupid is yet another sign that he isn’t the ardent lefty he once was. Perhaps it’s because he’s been mugged by reality one too many times. Or perhaps it’s simply because he’s 68, and his couldn’t-care-less attitude has become even more so.

Still, if Maher’s basis for understanding Trump voters is some random “conservative guy” who doesn’t like Trump, then he clearly needs to get out more, clearly needs to take a page from Jacob Riis and see how the other half lives. It’s certainly true that some Trump voters will do so grudgingly, but the majority absolutely love him.

Why might this be? Briefly put, as the exit polling from the Iowa Caucuses made clear, Trump shares their values and fights for people like them.

Squinty-eyed Katie, though, has her own thoughts on the MAGA phenomenon. In an insightful analysis that bordered on the magisterial, here’s how Couric assessed what makes those smelly Walmart-shopping Trump supporters tick:

Socio-economic disparities are a lot-, and class resentment, is a lot-, what-, and anti-intellectualism and [anti-]elitism is what is driving many of these, these anti-establishment Tr-, which are Trump voters. They’re anti-establishment voters. So, I think that is a huge problem that we have to address.

In one sense, I agree with Couric — inasmuch as I can decipher what she said. There’s definitely an anti-elitism among Trump supporters because anti-elitism is the essence of populism. As for anti-intellectualism, I’d say it’s more an anti-pseudo-intellectualism. Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hanson, after all, are intellectuals, whereas racial hucksters like Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi fall into the pseudo-intellectual category, the phony intellectual category.

This isn’t to give a pass to legitimate intellectuals — one of whom, Karl Marx, was the inspiration for the greatest mass murderers of the previous century. Mao and Stalin were communists, and Hitler was a national socialist.

Closer to home, we have our 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, who, before his stint in the Oval Office, was president of Princeton. He not only ushered in the era of “progressive” politics and a bigger, more activist government, but he also segregated the federal workforce in Washington. Who knew a “progressive” could also be a vile racist?

For good measure, “Karen” Couric added this: “I mean, globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society — I don’t know if you’ve ever been jealous of some-, what someone else has, or resentful. It is such a corroding and, um, bitter, almost bile, feeling.”

So, you see, if you support Trump, you’re a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, hammer-wielding Luddite. You can almost hear the “basket of deplorables” on her lips.

But as for that “almost bile” feeling, Couric clearly knows of what she speaks. A few years ago, she published a memoir called Going There — a memoir in which, as commentator Piers Morgan notes, she wrote jealously and corrosively and bitterly and biliously about her fellow female TV hosts, including Ashleigh Banfield, Deborah Norville, Diane Sawyer, and Martha Stewart.

“I suggest she put a sock in it,” said Morgan. But his advice comes too late. By now, Katie has already given us a window into the mind of the Left elite.