Intelligent Design

Matt Gaetz says Steve Bannon "is part of the intellectual 

architecture of our movement.”

Know-Nothingism is a political attitude characterized by 

anti-intellectualism, exaggerated patriotism, and fear of 

foreigners.

Chuck Todd says the Republican Party has been

taken over by anti-intellectualism.  He's a bit slow 

on the uptake.  Richard Hofstadter wrote a Pulitzer 

Prize-winning book about it over 50 years ago, 

eight years before Chuck was born.

Oxymorons for Our Time #167

GOP's Intellectual Center

“You see our movement at its core is an intellectual 

movement.  We are based on the greatest ideas ever 

conceived in the mind of man." 

Paul Ryan says he would copyright his intellectual

property if he had any.

The Intellectual Leader of the Republican Party?

Gawrsh!

Oxymorons for Our Time #133

Ted Cruz's Intellectual Force

David Brooks says that America doesn't have a Leader 

Problem; it has a Follower Problem.  In other words, he 

doesn't appreciate the way some of us 'followers' have

laughed at his intellectual pretentiousness and mocked

his purchase of a $3.95 million mansion in the Cleveland 

Park neigborhood of Washington, D. C.

Oxymorons for Our Time #115

GOP Intellectuals

After Adlai Stevenson, it was downhill

all the way for eggheads.

"As Julia Child has taught us, to cook the Perfect Hard-Boiled

Egghead you must boil it in the London School of Economics

until the timer chimes, 'Ph.D'."

Oxymorons for Our Time #29

Intellectual Humility

Oxymorons for Our Time #17

Rightwing Intellectual

Mr. and Mrs. Doughy Pantload,
Fictional American Intellectuals

Conor Friedersdorf Sets New World Record,
Composes 22 Long Paragraphs to Gently
Critique Fellow Intellectual Mark Levin
and His Magnum Opus

Intellectual Making Sure His Head Is On Straight

Do not adjust your screen resolution. This is the way
Newt Gingrich actually looks when his 'conservative
intellectual' mask is removed.

"I’ve known Newt Gingrich for about 20 years now and
I’ve always enjoyed him intellectually. Of course, I also
enjoy toe-sucking in the Morris Style."