Why Conservative Men Can’t Spell
In 1963, historian Richard Hofstadter sat in his office at Columbia University and wrote a sentence that described MAGA sixty years before MAGA existed.
He defined anti-intellectualism as “resentment of the life of the mind, and those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition to constantly minimize the value of that life.”
Not ignorance. Resentment.
That distinction is the key to understanding everything about the Republican Party’s relationship with education. They don’t attack experts because the experts are wrong. They attack experts because the experts make them feel stupid…
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