Mad at Sen. Joe Manchin for nixing President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar $2 trillion Build Back Better bill, Bette Midler tweeted out a slur of all West Virginians. Diva much, Bette?

Manchin, the “Beaches” legend claimed, “wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.”

An ensuing uproar got her to back off — sort of: “I apologize to the good people of WVA for my last outburst,” she tweeted. “I’m just seeing red; #JoeManchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise. Is he really the best WV has to offer its own citizens? Surely there’s someone there who has the state’s interests at heart, not his own.”

She couldn’t resist again demeaning the “good people” of West Virginia — who dare see their own interests, and Manchin, differently from her.

The elite left literally can’t conceive of legitimate disagreement: All of America that thinks differently is defective, a bunch of hicks and addicts. Progressives’ eternal blindness to their own bigotry is a marvel.