I used to watch them gathering outside before Sabbath services. Now, the Ashkenazim are a race. I am anti-intellectual. Guilty as charged, though with some qualifications. Look, some of my best friends are intellectuals.
Society needs intellectuals.
Politics should be populated by sensible, practical, worldly and intelligent people who have not read too many books and have some sympathetic feeling for the lives and tastes of ordinary, non-intellectual people. But the Dems have been taken over by intellectuals, and that is a very bad thing . I would rather have a President who went to the track than one who went to the opera. And I speak as an opera fan. One of my responders told me that Prokofiev's operas aren't bad.