The Daily Chart: Trump Won Because Americans Are Stupid

The noted public intellectual Sharon Stone (you thought I added an extra letter in the adjective perhaps?) has attracted heat for saying that Trump won because Americans “don’t travel and are uneducated.” (And the ever-reliable Jennifer Rubin has said that America suffers from an “epidemic of ignorance.” “[Trump] is the president of the ignorant. Democrats have to work on making them less ignorant.”) Before you write this off as just the basic instinct of the Hollywood left (I see what you did there!), know that “serious” liberals actually think this too. Check out how Reuters/Ipsos (former a news organization and formerly a polling company with some credibility) report the matter:

I don’t think I need to point out to Power Line readers how tendentious these “questions” and evaluations are. Funny how people who want to censor “misinformation” are guilty of doing it themselves.

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