The consequence of building your political movement around anti-intellectualism is that you push all the smart people away. That’s how modern day conservatism ended up turning to Ben Shapiro as a “thought leader”.
The Protestant work ethic that so many on the right champion about themselves is actually not what they value. It’s the grift that gets you paid and followed on the right. The work ethic, like everything else, is just to bash minorities and feel superior.
Here and there. I don't keep up with Twitter that much, but I love it when I see him doing it. I'm religious about the LRC All the President's Lawyers podcast.
He's such a tool. The GOP tries to pretend the whole birther movement was spearheaded (and the source of his base) by the RACIST Donald Trump. If you believed for an instance that Obama was not born in the US, you are automatically a racist.