Has the ascension of a Clown to the top of Republican polls exposed the "Party of Stupid" that thrives within the GOP?

Conservatism is inherently anti-intellectual. Intellectual and academic pursuit at its root exists to challenge pre-held assumption in order to get a better understanding of the world as it really is. Conservatism as a concept, is fundamentally interested in protecting a traditional view of the world and how it should be structured.

As such, while an intellectual can be conservative, and conservatism can accept some limited amount of intellectual apologism, ultimately conservative ideology is antithetical to the pursuit of knowledge.

Conservatism doesn't make people inherently stupid. The anti-intellectual wing of the Republican Party aren't actually Conservatives, and their way of thinking has been around for millennia. They're called Reactionaries, and they appear anti-intellectual because they oppose progress in all its forms.

Even if that progress makes sense, anything that makes things different is to be regarded with suspicion and cynicism. Change is bad. Change is scary.

And it will upend your quiet little life and your world will never be the same. BOOGA BOOGA.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.