@WhippoorwillSong Yes the article speaks to this. Quite elegantly put I think.
“It’s commonly assumed that education inoculates against conspiratorial thinking. However, schooling is not a foolproof safeguard against paranoid thinking.”
And
“Education and conspiratorial thinking have an ambivalent relationship”
From The New Republic 2021— "Democrats should try campaigning on the truth: The Republican Party is controlled by intelligent, college-educated, and affluent elites who concoct dangerous nonsense to paper over a bigoted, plutocratic agenda and to justify attacks on the democratic process. "
https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene"