Yes, Donald Trump’s America is full of idiots. But not in the way you think.
The word “idiot” is enjoying something of a renaissance. Searching “Donald Trump idiot” on Google yields nearly 10 million results, and the epithet has become a regular feature in the national media. A recent New York Times op-ed blasted Trump’s “agents of idiocracy,” while a headline from Salon asked, “Who are these idiot Donald Trump supporters?” Celebrities from Judd Apatow to Cher have denounced Trump as an idiot, and even data from polls have been used to claim that his supporters are idiotic.
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