"Anti-intellectualism is going to kill us all. Trusting experts isn't authoritarian. It's actually the opposite of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is when the government does whatever the fuck it wants regardless of what the data shows just because it can." Right-wingers hate expertise for the same reason they used to hate government: it doesn't coddle their ignorance and their bigotries. https://bsky.app/profile/leftistlawyer.com/post/3muzezflmfo2h