"The majority of white college-educated citizens, too, did not determine that Trump’s misogynistic, xenophobic, demagogic rhetoric disqualified him from the presidency."

They're a privileged elite, comfortable with the idea of cutting taxes for the rich they serve. They're also highly specialized professionals who don't seem to know much of anything outside of their professions. Maybe they don't have time. I have a BA in sociology and have been an activist for decades, with very little money. Looking at my contemporaries from the 1960s, I don't see much evidence that a college education helped them to understand social and political issues.