It’s not gonna help the people who like him, but the contrapositive of that statement (which bears equivalent logical truth) is “people who like me aren’t smart”
I don’t think it hurts them. They will acknowledge they aren’t the smartest, and they aren’t the richest. They see themselves as salt of the earth, real people, real Americans. “Smart” people are bad, not to be trusted. Like vaccines, and evolution, and higher education and book learnin’.
It’s not gonna help the people who like him, but the contrapositive of that statement (which bears equivalent logical truth) is “people who like me aren’t smart”
I don’t think it hurts them. They will acknowledge they aren’t the smartest, and they aren’t the richest. They see themselves as salt of the earth, real people, real Americans. “Smart” people are bad, not to be trusted. Like vaccines, and evolution, and higher education and book learnin’.