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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 2296048" data-attributes="member: 18225"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/how-the-stupid-party-created-donald-trump.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Opinion&amp;module=Trending&amp;version=Full&amp;region=Marginalia&amp;pgtype=article" target="_blank">How the &#039;Stupid Party&#039; Created Donald Trump...</a>...William friend. Buckley Jr. famously said, “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” More recently, George W. Bush <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=45895" target="_blank">joked</a> at a Yale commencement: “To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students I say, you, too, can be president of the United States.”Many Democrats took all this at face value and congratulated themselves for being smarter than the benighted Republicans. Here’s the thing, though: The Republican embrace of anti-intellectualism was, to a large extent, a put-on. At least until now....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 2296048, member: 18225"] [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opinion/how-the-stupid-party-created-donald-trump.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article']How the 'Stupid Party' Created Donald Trump...[/URL] ...[I]William friend. Buckley Jr. famously said, “I should sooner live in a society governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the 2,000 faculty members of Harvard University.” More recently, George W. Bush [URL='http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=45895']joked[/URL] at a Yale commencement: “To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students I say, you, too, can be president of the United States.” Many Democrats took all this at face value and congratulated themselves for being smarter than the benighted Republicans. Here’s the thing, though: The Republican embrace of anti-intellectualism was, to a large extent, a put-on. At least until now[/I].... [/QUOTE]

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