Rule by the lowest common denominator? It's baked into democracy's design

For liberals, Trump's victory was the triumph of prejudice, bigotry and forces allied against truth

The Trump victory, and the general disaster for Democrats this year, was the victory of ignorance, critics moan.

Writing in Foreign Policy, Georgetown’s Jason Brennan called it “the dance of the dunces” and wrote that “Trump owes his victory to the uninformed.”

New York Times columnist Neil Irwin noted the unprecedented list of inexperts and political novices filling out Trump’s administration. These include Chicago Cubs owner Todd Ricketts as deputy secretary of the Commerce Department. Irwin observes that “the Trump transition’s news release announcing the appointment cites the Ricketts family’s success in building the Cubs into