{"id":1653248,"date":"2022-09-22T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653248"},"modified":"2022-09-22T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:36:12","slug":"sen-hawley-catches-bidens-national-archives-nominee-calling-gop-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-hawley-catches-bidens-national-archives-nominee-calling-gop-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Hawley Catches Biden\u2019s National Archives Nominee Calling GOP &#8220;Stupid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-hawley-catches-bidens-national-archives-nominee-calling-gop-stupid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1653248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Senate held a confirmation hearing for Dr. Colleen Shogan, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-white-house-walks-back-bidens-claim-pandemic-is-over\">President<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/intentional-killing-of-conservative-teen-boy-happened-just-weeks-after-biden-speech-targeting-maga-republicans\">Biden<\/a>\u2019s nominee to lead the National Archives.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/josh-hawley-blasts-tsa-for-allowing-1-000-illegal-immigrants-to-use-arrest-warrants-as-valid-id\/\">Sen. Josh Hawley<\/a> of Missouri grilled Shogan over a paper she had written in 2007, titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20446425?saml_data=eyJzYW1sVG9rZW4iOiI2NWU1YjA3Ni1iZjI3LTQyY2ItYTY5ZS1hZTZkODgwMzE1OGIiLCJpbnN0aXR1dGlvbklkcyI6WyIxMjJiMTFjOS00YWE5LTQzY2UtYWQzZS0xMmUyYTE4YmU3ZWUiXX0&amp;seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents\">Anti-Intellectualism in the Modern Presidency: A Republican Populism<\/a>, which described the tactic of anti-intellectualism and its use by Republican presidents over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley began by noting that in the paper, Shogan wrote that recent Republican presidents had adopted anti-intellectualism to &#8220;combat allegations of elitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shogan defined the term as &#8220;the ability to speak in very plain, common-sense terms to Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In her paper, however, the Yale graduate described it as &#8220;the attainment of knowledge through instincts, character, moral sensibilities, and emotions,&#8221; adding that one who displays such qualities &#8220;disparages the rational complexity associated with intellectual pursuits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shogan alleged that Republican presidents such as Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush all employed anti-intellectualism in their leadership styles in order to mask the fact that they were all, for the most part, well-educated members of &#8220;the elite.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So is the point that Republicans are stupid and Democrats are intellectual?&#8221; Hawley asked, pointing out that Shogan made a clear distinction between Republicans and Democrats, painting the latter as the &#8220;intellectual&#8221; side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely not,&#8221; Shogan replied, suggesting that she had been trying to highlight a &#8220;rhetorical connection&#8221; Republicans have with the American people.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper, Shogan attributed the rise of Republican anti-intellectualism to &#8220;the rise of the religious-right.&#8221; Hawley brought this up, questioning whether she viewed that voting bloc as &#8220;stupid.&#8221; He also cited her as saying Reagan had &#8220;less than favorable intellectual capacities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shogan denied that either claim was implying that Republican leaders and their voters were &#8220;dumb.&#8221; In the paper, she noted that anti-intellectuals &#8220;are not necessarily unintelligent or dismissive of smart people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Hawley continued to press Shogan on whether she thought Republicans, including those who voted for Donald Trump, were anti-intellectual, however she did not budge in her insistence that the anti-intellectualism employed by Republicans presidents appealed to voters because of its simple, common-sense nature.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan tried to turn the conversation from the paper to her more than fifteen years of non-partisan service, however Hawley pointed out that given the current state of American institutions and trust in them, she had to do a better job of proving that she would, in fact, be non-partisan.<\/p>\n<p>Shogan defended herself, once again citing her experience at the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, and the White House Historical Association.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley concluded by entering Shogan\u2019s paper into the official record, suggesting people will be &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; when they read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the Senate held a confirmation hearing for Dr. Colleen Shogan, President\u00a0Biden\u2019s nominee to lead the National Archives.During the hearing, Sen. 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