I know that I made a very broad generalization about education. There is no monopoly on stupidity.
I think the point I'm trying to make is the trump cultishness factor within his constituency and why it came to be. I feel that there is a strong correlation between allowing oneself to be sucked into a cult and believing absolutely everything to leader says and one's education level. As I've said before, an educated person has, or should have, more ability to think independently and critically than an uneducated person is because that is part of the process one has to learn the higher one's level of education becomes. One has to assess what is being presented to them and decide if it makes sense to them. Someone in a cult does no do that. They follow blindly.
Would you give merit to my hypothesis?
No, I would not give this merit as strongly as you.
It's important to look at democratic politics as opposing forces always working against each other. It's a bit of a cliche, but Newton's law aptly works in politics.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
If you flip your Trump cult theory around and say the Washington establishment is a cult, you can start to see the opposing appeal of Trump. Trump is the proverbial bull in the China shop. He's going to break things in Washington whether everyone is on board or not. For many die-hard Trump voters, sending a traditional Republican or progressive Democrats to Washington would have no appeal.
One hundred years from now historians will have an unprejudiced and dispassionate assessment of Trump's two terms. They will cite his flaws. I think they will be citing his declining skills caused by age in this second term. However, they will also be discussing his efforts to reorganize the Federal government and the World Order. Looking back, they will determine if he had success or failed. If he failed, they will assess his ability, mistakes and aggressive methods.
