I said nearly this exact sentence to my partner a few weeks ago.

In the last election, it was such political genius for Trump to say: “I love the poorly educated.” Had Hillary Clinton or even Bernie Sanders been capable of saying that, they’d be on their way now to a second term.

That was the phrase that won Trump the 2016 election just as Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” is what lost it for her. Words do matter sometimes!

Also this is an excellent point.

Yes, there’s race, and immigration, and globalization, but there’s something even scarier, and hard to address directly: this Knowledge Economy, which belongs to us in the postgraduate elite, who cannot imagine the working class ever being part of it. In that sense, the vote for Trump in 2016 was the Luddite equivalent of taking a hammer to all that human capital belonging to us.

And the sad thing is the “educated” have gotten yet more haughty and convinced of their vast superiority since 2016 while their obvious cluelessness has only accelerated.