There's a floor on intelligence for most kinds of success. But success constitutes social positioning, and intelligence isn't very directly connected to that.
Being too intelligent seems to be a social disadvantage often and probably success for a lot of people requires hiding their intelligence.
Yes, but the dumb vote in droves for a buffoonish reality tv star they think will fire enough people in Government so that they don’t have to pay taxes anymore.
The orange one also hates brown people as much as they do and is unafraid to say it out loud.
Also, it’s just a bonus that their reality tv star really, really pisses off those rich educated folks in the city who “look down” them.
Oh stop it with the pearl clutching; fascism has been ascendant in the US since 1945, le orange man (bad) is just the latest stop on the train ride from Joe McCarthy.
I think it's pretty naive to think that the only people to vote for, campaign for, and work for Trump were "dumb". Plenty of "smart" people made decisions between supporting, campaigning for, working for, or defending his campaign and administration because the things that are bad about him don't really affect (or benefit) their own interests.
Being too intelligent seems to be a social disadvantage often and probably success for a lot of people requires hiding their intelligence.