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Obama: Trump/GOP Embracing ‘Anti-Intellectualism’; ‘Ignorance Is Not A Virtue’

Robert Kraychik

Using his commencement speech at Rutgers University as a get-out-the-vote effort for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, President Barack Obama derided Donald Trump and Republicans more broadly as endorsing irrationality and ignorance. Chastised young citizens – who mostly support left-wing causes associated with Democrats – for insufficiently exercising their votes, Obama made the case for political experience as amounting to relevant expertise necessary to hold elected office.

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