Note that the praise was not especially earnest.

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    It worked even on democrats when he was in the office.

    That’s why calling him stupid is so dangerous. Most people stupid get away with a lot of things.

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      Trump is classically stupid, in that he is uneducated, illiterate, and incurious. But there’s more than one kind of intelligence, and he displays large amounts of cunning, conniving, and a sense of showmanship to impress and inspire other classically stupid people.

      That’s why writing him off is so dangerous.

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        I mean, he’s quite well educated. That’s just another example of how legacy systems are fucking terrible.

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          Attending prestigious does not inherently make him well educated. Especially when one of the professors says you are, and I quote, “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had”.

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            “Well educated” in the sense that he got an education in prestigious places, not that he was a good student. The worst doctor to come out of Johns Hopkins is not going to be a good doctor because of it.

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            It does in fact make him “well educated.” He’s not smart, learned, well-read, or thoughtful. It’s just a fact, it’s not something that can be debated. No one with a community college degree will ever be well educated and no one with an Ivy League degree will ever not be well educated.