Monkey Cage: Republicans are increasingly antagonistic toward experts

[JA]

One of the more interesting findings was this:

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Why is it anti-intellectual to think ordinary people should be trusted over experts? Isn't that basically the core principle underlying democracy: that ordinary people should be trusted to make decisions that affect the country as a whole?

Perhaps the issue is more or less centered on our increasingly technocratic society, rather than intellectualism/anti-intellectualism.