That's what the Republicans hated about Obama. He spoke better English than they did.

The Republican Party may not necessarily be solely populated by ignoramuses, but they have deliberately chosen to go after the ignorant and the functionally illiterate to promote their program. People who speak good English, read books, are, you know, "intellectual elitists".

Our history of anti-intellectualism is coming home to roost. The Conservatives are counting on these people to stay in power, and even those Conservatives who aren't ignoramuses refuse to criticize or educate those who are. On the contrary, they celebrate and praise them.

This problem isn't going to go away when Trump does, its going to stay with us until these people are diluted and dispersed by more education...and more immigration. Sure, the newcomers may not be particularly well educated, but at least, they want their children to be so. They have not been indoctrinated to hate people who speak good English and read books.