Which -if any (and including the current president)- MAGA people fit this definition?
“One of the most remarkable characteristics of America’s revolutionary generation was the presence and influence of so many genuine intellectuals (although the term had not been coined in the eighteenth century).
Men of extraordinary learning and intellect were disproportionately represented among the politicians who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and led the republic during its formative decades.” – Susan Jacoby, The Age of Unreason.
Curmudgeon at Work 
We are now a third-rate failed-state. We’ve sunk to a new low. I wonder what the founding fathers wouldd say if they cold see us now.
Belief in the myth of exceptionalism in this country has sunk to the level of a belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.