Many academics I see online are leftist whereas many laypeople I see online are right wing.

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    Well-intended, sure. Everyone is the protagonist of their own story.

    Intelligent, maybe, although that’s always going to push a person towards something a bit more nuanced. Other personality defects have to pick up the slack.

    Educated, well, that depends on what they studied. Engineers and doctors don’t really learn much that prevents you from being a bad person. It’s hard to imagine a (modern) anthropologist buying into whatever fascist nonsense, though.

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        It’s true.

        The version that’s going around right now is more like that, though. Reagan is very dead. Free markets are out, blood and soil is in.

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          The current US right wing leader is destroying any possibility the sensible right wing concerns get any attention, but just because something took a turn to the dark side doesn’t mean there was nothing worthwhile in it to begin with.