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He wants to claim that his supposedly big and beautiful bill is the most popular legislation in history and that he’s the greatest president ever, and doesn’t want to hear egghead historians tell him otherwise.

Last, it essentially represents a bunch of elite eggheads saying “trust us, we’re different now” when no one trusts them.

But a significant chunk of the public has been trained not to listen to any such “deep-staters” or Nobel Prize–winning eggheads.

“We had some real eggheads, and famously, they don’t watch comedy. Then you trample all over their favorite topic” and things can get tense, she says.

A professor who refused to be an ivory tower egghead, Brustein didn’t simply respond to the art of his day but helped shape it.