Alabama Liberal wonders if the American Idiocracy is closer than we know, creates the term “Idiot Nerds” to explain glasses-wearing people we often think are much smarter than they actually are (like Nate Silver or Bret Stephens), explains the Republican Party has been so thoroughly transformed by Trump it’s now the party of Dead Elephants, and draws eerie parallels between Trump’s “Republican” Party and the nativist Know-Nothing Party of the 1850’s. There’s also time for side tangents into the fallacy of “woke” heavy-users on Twitter, pondering if Trump went on “Shark Tank,” and the real harm behind ridiculous smears on Caribbean immigrants.
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