Intellectuals Who Hate the ‘Blob’ Have a Lot in Common With Trump
They dislike intervention, expanding alliances and imposing American values abroad. Sound familiar?
He don’t need no stinking elites.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
It is unusual to find academics at some of America’s most elite universities in enthusiastic agreement with Donald Trump, who is perhaps the least intellectual president in American history. But if a spate of recent books and articles is any indication, the president and the professors are united in scorn for America’s foreign policy elite.
The argument this unlikely alliance makes — that the foreign policy elite is a corrupt cabal that has led the country from disaster to disaster — is fashionable enough, given today’s anti-establishment mood. It also happens to be wrong.