On Sunday, I was unfortunate enough to schedule a journey on the New York subway that coincided with Donald Trumpâs homecoming rally. The train passed through Madison Square Garden, where Trump was flanked by Elon Musk, Dr Phil, Hulk Hogan and co with tales of how together they were going to take
America âbackâ from an unnamed other. There, inevitably, the true believers who didnât manage to get tickets to the Trump 2024 sideshow piled into the carriage and, inevitably, an argument ensued.
A man in a camo Maga hat took up against a tourist for putting his suitcase in the supposedly wrong place, supposedly blocking the entrance. âIn your country you can do whatever the fuck you want,â the man in the camo hat bellowed at the poor bewildered guy, who had no space to move his suitcases even if he wanted to. And then, the culmination of the whole rant, when the man said he âdidnât speak Englishâ.
âI have an incredibly high IQâ, said the man in the camo hat, while everyone else stared stubbornly down at their phones, pretending not to hear. âI am a highly intelligent person.â
What this particular Trump supporterâs intelligence had to do with the situation was unclear. Except that high intelligence, particularly intelligence measured by IQ, is an enduring fascination for the right. Just this week, Mel Gibson, an actor and director perhaps more well known of late for his racist and antisemitic rants rather than his acting or directing, went in on Kamala Harrisâs perceived low intelligence.
Gibson, whoâs unsurprisingly voting Republican, told TMZ he thought the vice-presidentâs political track record was âappallingâ. He went on to say she had âno policies to speak ofâ.
âAnd sheâs got the IQ of a fence post.â
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