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When ‘ways’ are ‘accidentally effective’ to the degree it puts a non-candidate into elected government I think it’s probable their intelligence (the ability to aquire and apply skills) is around average or above.
Arrogance, ignorance and misplaced pride perhaps aren’t what most of us associate with intelligence but that’s partially cultural and to an unknown degree an artifice for twitter anyway.
He is not a bright man - he just has way of appealing to the absolute worst in the nature of bad people that is accidentally effective.