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"The problem with a less educated support base is that it simply has a less accurate understanding of the world. In fact, I think the problem is much worse than a simple analysis of voting patterns by educational attainment would suggest. Populists not only often fail to appeal to college graduates as a broad class, but they do particularly poorly among the small slice of the public that is the most informed about policy and current events, like journalists and academics."
As a general proposition this might have been true but 'educated' people now have proven themselves prone to make TERRIBLE policy choices. It's quite possible that working class people now have a better intuitive understanding of incentives, the value of punishment, and features of human nature which have been suppressed and distorted entirely among the educated (who are disproportionately female and progressive). Net Zero? Bail reform? BLM? Open borders? DEI? ESG? Censoring online speech? COVID-era repression? All of these policies originate in similar impulses and those impulses seem to be ones that educated people are especially susceptible to. It's possible that when an educational system becomes SO distorted by perverse values and ideology that its graduates actually demonstrate LESS acuity in questions about the world and society than people who, instead, opened businesses or worked on ships or enlisted in the army or did sales. I think we're at that point.
