would you care to elaborate? genuine interest.
Yeah, of course! I know I was being quite glib, I was typing another essay somewhere else
Obviously people knowing stuff is a good thing in itself. The reason I agree with the core of
what Michael Gove said is how poorly the smartest people in the room have ran the world. Things are still shit for most people, even with the geniuses in charge.
Doing politics isn't like doing an exam, it's not a purely intellectual exercise. It's why nobody cared about Hillary Clinton being the "most qualified nominee ever", for instance (and if she was so smart, why didn't she win?). Their great intellect has been exposed and now the rich people who their ideas benefited feel bad.
The PSB video includes all of this stuff about Trump being a retard and a sex pest (again, fair game in itself) but you don't have to look back too far for another rapist president, it's just that Bill Clinton covered up his sex creep shit. It's Trump's outward crudeness that is the biggest sin for these people because it pulls the curtain back on the evils of America and the rest of the western world.
Liberals conceive intelligence through aesthetics because they're obsessed with representation and image over actual political change. When your actual beliefs and policies aren't transformative, then you have to be good at selling an abstract idea of "professionalism" and wear a nice suit. It's all about the branding.