Michael Flynn, national security adviser, resigns over Russia contacts

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No, it's the sound of elitism...and people have heard it so much lately that they're rebelling against it.

If certain people are tired of hearing elitism, perhaps they should stop being so fucking stupid.  Trump supporters are trying so hard to make it sound as if all opinions are equal, but they are not, which is why Crossless' question about a basic civics test is relevant.

When 2/3 of a group of people have trouble recognizing basic facts, like that unemployment actually went down under president Obama, there's not much of a better word to describe them than "stupid."

I would add that the anti-elitist crowd has never worked out in a clear way just which elites they are rebelling against. Financial elites? Academics and other intellectuals? Duly elected political elites? Cultural movers and shakers? All of them?

If resentment about specific policy programs undergirded this rebellion, that would be one thing. But it really looks to me like it's resentment in a broader and deeper sense that animates so many of Trump's supporters. No surprise there, since demagogues, practically by definition, tap into such resentment to achieve power, and Trump himself is a walking textbook example of the corrosive effects of resentment in a narcissistic, ill-educated parvenu who's had a taste of celebrity. He and his followers are made for each other. They're just not a good fit for a healthy constitutional republic that depends on a well educated populace, a vigorous free press, and a recognition that facts aren't up for grabs. These people talk truth and principle but practice obscurantism and relativism.

And I'd bet the mortgage payment that considerably fewer than 50% of Trump's supporters could pass that basic (low bar) test I proposed. I doubt our president would pass it either -- not that it would matter to his people.