Monkey Cage: Republicans are increasingly antagonistic toward experts

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Right-wing anti-intellectualism isn't anything new. Nixon called Adlai Stevenson an "egghead", Buckley and Nixon complained about "Harvard professors", Reagan said that trees cause more pollution than people and that ketchup is a vegetable, Dukakis citing statistics suggesting that the death penalty is ineffective hurt him, etc.