One of the first appeals of fascism to the Volk, the ordinary bloke, the normal against the queer, sunbversive, arty-farty, morally decadent intellectuals and artist

A more recent variant on this tendency is the so-called "academic freedom" movement, led by David Horowitz and his Center for the Study of Popular Culture, which claims the identity politics and left-wing views of certain academics are a means of indoctrinating university students with anti-American views [6]. Some even go so far as to say the work of these left-wing professors provides encouragement and ideological ammunition for America's enemies (and might cite, for example, the apparent influence of Noam Chomsky on Hugo Chavez as suggested by the latter's endorsement of Hegemony or Survival before the United Nations)

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none” AS

"I used to be an intellect and then I took up boxing." Someone must have experienced that, maybe.

a majority that can not reason through the use of intellect is easier to manipulate.