This is simply a false dichotomy.

Being propagandized into extremism does not require anyone to be a total idiot.

Everyone is susceptible to propaganda and populism.

Someone like Trump isn’t the first rise to the top of the country and be a con man or be as mad as a hatter in the end… He will not be remembered for his brain power.

I think he will be remembered for the decline and the loss of influence by America across the world that will be his legacy.