“I love the poorly educated”

In the US, Trump lost in almost all of America’s big cities in both 2016 and 2020. He also split the American electorate on educational lines, losing heavily among college graduates but winning almost 80 percent of the votes of non-college-educated white men. Little wonder that he remarked in 2016: “I love the poorly educated.”

— The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World, by Gideon Rachman, p. 14