{"id":5036,"date":"2025-10-09T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:07:48","slug":"the-views-intellectual-arrogance-a-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/10\/09\/the-views-intellectual-arrogance-a-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"The View&#8217;s Intellectual Arrogance: A Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Literally!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/2025\/10\/09\/the-views-intellectual-arrogance-a-reality-check\/the_view_logo2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5037\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5037\" src=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_View_logo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_View_logo2.png 600w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_View_logo2-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The_View_logo2-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On The View, Hasan Minhaj says all of Trump&#8217;s supporters (over half the country) are &#8220;dumb C-average students&#8221; who &#8220;need a 30-minute head start on the test.&#8221;<br \/>\nFaux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin just sits there and laughs, no push back at all.<br \/>\nWhoopi says the entire cast thinks\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cHgXSVFecw\">pic.twitter.com\/cHgXSVFecw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1976316270308950294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>When Comedians Mistake Smugness for Statistics<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So Hasan Minhaj walked onto <em>The View<\/em> and declared that over 77 million Americans\u2014roughly half the voting population\u2014are &#8220;dumb C-average students&#8221; who need a &#8220;30-minute head start on the test.&#8221; Alyssa Farah Griffin, supposedly the &#8220;conservative&#8221; voice at the table, responded with the intellectual rigor of a laugh track. Whoopi Goldson sealed the deal by assuring us they all think Minhaj is &#8220;great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great at what, exactly? Stand-up sociology? Peer-reviewed punditry?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s investigate this stellar claim with the kind of scrutiny <em>The View<\/em> apparently reserves for their green room snack selection.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The &#8220;Dumb Voter&#8221; Hypothesis: A Scientific Masterpiece<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Minhaj&#8217;s thesis operates on a fascinating premise: that intelligence correlates perfectly with voting patterns, and that <em>his<\/em> preferred voting pattern represents the smart choice. This is the kind of circular reasoning that would earn you a C-minus in an actual logic course\u2014but we&#8217;ll generously assume Minhaj got at least a B.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what this &#8220;analysis&#8221; conveniently ignores:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>The actual demographics prove inconvenient.<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Trump&#8217;s 2024 coalition included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Significant gains among Hispanic voters, including working-class communities<\/li>\n<li>Increases among Black men, particularly younger voters<\/li>\n<li>Strong support from small business owners and entrepreneurs<\/li>\n<li>Solid backing from skilled tradespeople\u2014you know, the people who can actually <em>build<\/em> things<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But sure, the electrician who wired your studio is clearly intellectually inferior to someone who reads teleprompter jokes for a living.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Credential Con<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s address the elephant in the room: the assumption that educational credentials equal intelligence, wisdom, or correctness.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same thinking that gave us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PhDs who assured us inflation was &#8220;transitory&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ivy League economists who missed the 2008 financial crisis<\/li>\n<li>Credentialed experts who promised lockdowns would be &#8220;two weeks&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The smartest people in every room who said Biden was &#8220;sharp as a tack&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, the supposedly &#8220;dumb&#8221; voters somehow figured out that grocery prices had doubled and that their paychecks weren&#8217;t stretching as far. They didn&#8217;t need a degree from Harvard to read their own bank statements\u2014a skill that apparently eludes some very educated people.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Alyssa&#8217;s Awkward Silence: The Sound of Controlled Opposition<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Special recognition goes to Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose job description apparently involves nodding along while her audience gets insulted. This is &#8220;conservative&#8221; representation in the same way a screen door represents home security.<\/p>\n<p>When half the country gets called stupid to your face and your response is nervous laughter, you&#8217;re not providing balance\u2014you&#8217;re providing cover. She&#8217;s the Washington Generals of political commentary, perpetually hired to lose gracefully.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The View&#8217;s View: From a Very High Horse<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>What&#8217;s remarkable is the utter lack of self-awareness. <em>The View<\/em> has been wrong about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2016 election results<\/li>\n<li>The Russia collusion narrative&#8217;s strength<\/li>\n<li>Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop authenticity<\/li>\n<li>Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity<\/li>\n<li>The 2024 election results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But they&#8217;re certain about everyone else&#8217;s stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same panel that has hosted some truly spectacular moments of intellectual achievement, including claims that the Earth might be flat (though quickly walked back) and confusion about basic civics. Yet somehow, they&#8217;ve appointed themselves the arbiters of American intelligence.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Real Test<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a thought experiment: Who&#8217;s actually demonstrating better judgment?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Option A:<\/strong> <\/span>The voters who looked at inflation, crime rates, border chaos, and international instability and voted for change.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Option B:<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>The television personalities who earn millions while insisting that voters who can&#8217;t afford groceries are just too stupid to understand how great everything is.<\/p>\n<p>The voter isn&#8217;t asking for a 30-minute head start. The voter is asking why the &#8220;smart people&#8221; need four years and still can&#8217;t fix anything.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Arrogance of Ignorance<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>What Minhaj and <em>The View<\/em> crew actually revealed isn&#8217;t the stupidity of Trump voters\u2014it&#8217;s their own stunning intellectual arrogance. They&#8217;ve confused credentialism with wisdom, urban zip codes with intelligence, and agreement with correctness.<\/p>\n<p>They live in a bubble so hermetically sealed that they can call half the country morons on national television and receive applause instead of pushback. They mistake the echo for insight.<\/p>\n<p>The truly intelligent response would be: &#8220;77 million Americans disagreed with us. Maybe we should understand why rather than insult them.&#8221; But that would require the kind of intellectual humility that doesn&#8217;t play well in their audience.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Ultimate Irony<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The cruelest irony? The &#8220;C-average students&#8221; they&#8217;re mocking include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>The nurses who kept hospitals running during COVID<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>The truckers who kept supply chains moving<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>The farmers who produce their food<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>The manufacturers who make their products<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em><strong>The veterans who served their country<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These people don&#8217;t need a head start on the test. They&#8217;re too busy living in the real world to show up for <em>The View&#8217;s<\/em> theoretical exam.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the self-appointed intellectual elite will continue to wonder why nobody takes them seriously while they broadcast their contempt for half the nation\u2014and call it comedy.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Perhaps the real &#8220;C-average students&#8221; are the ones who keep failing to learn the same lesson every four years: insulting voters doesn&#8217;t win elections. But that might require a level of self-reflection that no amount of head start can provide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literally! On The View, Hasan Minhaj says all of Trump&#8217;s supporters (over half the country) are &#8220;dumb C-average students&#8221; who &#8220;need a 30-minute head start on the test.&#8221; Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin just sits there and laughs, no push back at all. Whoopi says the entire cast thinks\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/cHgXSVFecw \u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-view"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novus2.com\/righteouscause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}