To deride Culture, and its icons, and alienate the average daily-breadwinner Do-ers, from progressive Thinkers, is a ploy that Fascism has used throughout History. One of the easiest means to achieve that end, is to play the 'Thinkers are Elitist' card! You don't have to look too deep to see that Fascists are resorting to such propaganda, as they realize (or have always realized) that the only thing, standing between them and their goals, is the liberal free-thinking Leftist ideology.
