This is a pretty unscientific intuition but there’s a certain Northern European archetype you can’t help but disproportionately encounter in like the Netherlands/Germany/Scandinavia who are obviously a standard deviation or two above median intelligence but they’re just so pure hearted or whatever that they come across as complete babbling fools in basically all social contexts internationally. This is the yang to its Levantine yin -- the 90 IQ bazaar merchant who’s somehow a total wolf in anything involving social complexity. For some reason indeed this also seems to generalize to social thought. Now the former types are usually very “libbed out” given other geographic contingencies but in the American heartland you can surely find plenty of conservatives of this sort. Does this Theory address the Hegseth Question? A Princetonian high-school valedictorian who’s somehow… you know?