Just what is " intellectualism " and anti-intellectualism ? Is there a class of " intellectuals " in this country exclusively devoted to the life of the mind ?

 What do they have to say about Hillary Clinton's intellect ? Is Wall St. and the Pentagon all about establishing the rule of intellect in American society and in the " free world " ?

I can imagine a Marxist " intellectual " explaining to an obtuse bourgeois press that Republican Donald Trump as well as " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders are explained by the decay of capitalism and the New Colonialism in the Middle East .
Does the bought and sold mainstream news media - so hostile to Trump - reflect the concentration of incorruptible intellects ?

Does " identity politics " and silly " political correctness " reflect the highest intellectualism of our time ?

May I recommend a BOOK to any intellectuals here :" The Trouble with Diversity " by Walter Benn Michaels..... how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality " ?

How many American " intellectuals " now see the Hillary Democrats for what they are: a neo-con War Party ? The kind mocked by anti-imperialist author Mark Twain more than a decade ago ?

Back then we seized the Philippines and Cuba and Puerto Rico with less intellectual justification than Russia occupying the Crimea.