You have to admit that there is a movement, among certain conservative factions, toward anti-intellectualism.
I constantly hear that someone is a better choice because "he's someone you'd want to have a beer with." In the US is was used to support the election of George W. Bush. it's also frequently used to incorrectly label someone as "from the street" or "a man of the people." Ford; someone with a very profitable family business and a wealthy family behind him, who 'refused' to spend the public's money when a councilor, but who could well afford to front his own bill unlike so many others in council. Bush; graduate of an Ivy League school, former drunk, former coke-head, and from an oil rich family who played the country bumpkin, all the way to the Presidency. I'm both cases their opponents were essentially beaten by calling them "elites"; a label that could equally apply to themselves.
