Former far-left MSNBC host Chris Matthews literally insulted every American who is not an elite and doesn’t like the direction the country is going under Joe Biden by likening them to  ‘terrorists.’

His remarks come after the annual Reagan National Defense survey found in November that 70 percent of Americans believe Biden has the country going in the wrong direction. But despite that overwhelming majority, Matthews suggested during a “Morning Joe” appearance on Wednesday that the backlash to the president’s abysmal policies is mostly from “rural rage.”

“But I tell you, it’s very tough because people that didn’t go to college have a pretty good rage on their hands. That’s what you really want in an election, is a rage. It can be black rage, or white rage, or rural rage. In this case, it’s rural rage. They are so angry at the liberal establishment, the coastal elite,” Matthews said, per Fox News.

“But in a way, it’s like fighting terrorism,” he went on to say. “I mean, you know, we think we just put the army in, or Israel just puts the IDF, and they’re going to solve the problem. It never solves the problem. Because you enrage people.

“And we did it with Afghanistan, and we did it with Iraq. We enrage the enemy to the point where they’re more fiery than ever, and they hate us more than ever. Armies don’t make peace. And we think they do,” Matthews droned on.

He also claimed it was “weird” how regular people feel rage towards pop culture, including shows like “Saturday Night Live,” which many Americans feel mocks them.

“They look at people on television, they say, ‘Oh, those people on Saturday Night Live, those snarling rich kids, I know who they are. They’re all trust funders. They don’t have to worry about us,'” Matthews said. “And the regular guy in the country goes, ‘There they are snarling and making fun of us again.’ And every time we make fun of Trump, we’re making fun of them. It’s a weird thing.”

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Later in the day, The Hill columnist Joe Concha ripped Matthews for his take during an appearance on Fox News.

“You know, common sense is like deodorant. The people that need it most never use it. And Chris Matthews is Exhibit A here,” Concha said.

“Because in 2016, the turning point in that election is when Hillary Clinton referred to Trump supporters as a basket of deplorables. And they missed the entire Midwest in Ohio and in Michigan and Wisconsin, that blue wall, they didn’t get the sentiment because they live in these elite bubbles in New York and Washington,” Concha added.

“Here’s the bottom line: He says that rural voters are angry. No, everybody’s angry — 78% of voters believe the country is headed in the wrong direction,” he continued. “That’s an AP poll, a majority think, an overwhelming majority think the economy is going to get worse.

“We’ve talked about crime. We’ve talked about the open border. We talked about education scores being at a 30-year low. And the world seems to be on fire. Yeah, people are angry right now. And it’s not just those who live in West Virginia or Wyoming,” he said.