Attention David Brooks.... rednecks and flyovers can think and reason... don’t really need the coastal elites.
Yep.
To his enormous credit, the great scholar, Clive Staples Lewis, understood this.
Read the book, That Hideous Strength.
He explicates how it is the so-called intellectuals who are most easily deluded and exploited, and how the rural farmer can often see things more clearly.