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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.

So ATN brings out its sneering alt-rightist, Mark Ravenhead, to insinuate that the fire was a false flag, while Tom suggests booking an egghead historian to tell viewers that everything is fine and normal.