As a general rule, if you must use a French phrase to express your meaning, you aren't thinking hard enough.
The Economist has a profoundly insulting article online discussing the "decline" of the Republican party. Describing it as a party that lost the "battle of the brains".
Joe Biden? (snigger) Really, Economist? You're going to argue the battle of the brains with Joe Biden on your side?
Not a smart move.
But you know a writer is an intellectual sinkhole when he quotes French socialist Julian Benda as he did here; "Conservative intellectuals are also engaged in their own version of what Julian Benda dubbed la trahison des clercs, the treason of the learned."
What is the point of referencing a French socialist when discussing American conservatism. Are you really expecting this to add gravitas to your ability to describe the GOP?
Not very bright.
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