Just Politics

[blackhawks]

I'm stunned but unsurprised. Rubin chronicled the not so distinguished lineage of bat-shit crazy that has been simmering in the pot of GOP politics. Trump lifted the lid off the pot.

It is not as if anti-intellectualism suddenly appeared with the election of President Trump. The habitual rejection of expertise on everything from climate change to the economic impact of immigration has been rampant in the Republican Party for some time.

It is part and parcel of the invented victimization of mostly white, non-college-educated men who attribute their loss of prestige and status to “elites,” especially those in colleges and the media. Even right-wingers who should know better have felt compelled to pander to audiences that wear ignorance and anti-intellectualism as a badge of honor.