Indeed.
What is known for certain is the existance of a long, carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign to make people think Bush was dumb.
I think so. A strategy inspired by Sun Tsu's observations about the odds for those who don't know their enemy I'm guessing.
In the present I strongly suspect that Trump is unusually intelligent (and I still hold out hope that he will prove worth supporting) so I stay mum with quite amusement when the neo-progressives go on and on about how stupid the guy is.
What is extra funny is that most of the neo-progressives have no clue whatsoever about
themselves either. That is, they are being used like bitches by people who are the antithesis of what most of them think right and good. They have no chance whatsoever, but the battle will be unpleasant none-the-less and I would prefer that it is somehow avoided.