The thing is, these "smug leftists" with advanced degrees are the ones that can find supporting evidence and detailed studies to support their perspectives, while "low information" types tend to rely on platitudes, or at best "common sense", usually presupposing the conclusions then using meandering  and often specious inductions to justify it.  Or, we have the always reliable, "opinion presented as fact", such as when you claim that "intellectuals are enmeshed in utopian thinking that has no practical application in the real world". 

Anti-intellectualism is nothing more than a cop-out. May as well just tell us that Real Americans Dont' Go To Ivory Tower Elitist Factories or some other "common sense" bluster.