It has been a long time tactic of the left, almost a hallmark of their strategy, to present themselves as brilliant and the opposition as dunces.
Hillary and Bill are the smartest people in the world. Reagan is a second rate B movie actor. Bush is an idiot.
Further back Eisenhower was a dim bulb general and Adlai Stevenson was an intellectual giant. Fulbright and McGovern were geniuses and Nixon and Goldwater were barely mediocre.
It is a predictable pattern, just as is their election strategy of lauditory media articles for their side, polls to support the predictions of victory, more polls to support those. exit polls to cement the image, demand a recount after the loss, go to court to overturn the election, then scream and protest the loss until the next election. Repeat.