Political Intrusion Quotes
Trump was a very wealthy businessman and celebrity who had flirted with running for the Republican nomination for President. He then supported Mitt Romney, but continued with his birther accusations against President Obama. The Birthers were extremists and any racists who perpetrated the absurd story that Obama was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii where his family insists he was born, where the local newspapers at the tie report his birth, where his birth certificate shows he was born, where the local hospital records show he was born. Trump made it very difficult for Romney who was embarrassed because a major supporter was uttering such nonsense, but also because, although a small minority of “crazies”, the birthers were all activists in Romney’s Conservative Republican base and Romney was vigorously courting that base.
Note that to many in 19th century France, politics was considered crude and unrefined—especially to the well-educated and cultured. It is not very different in modern times in America and many other countries. Politicians, sensing the disdain that some intellectuals have of politics, often react by denigrating and attacking intellectuals and dismissing their views and expertise in science and other fields.
