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Interesting. My impression of American anti-intellectualism is that it more often takes the opposite form:

"X person is by all measures more educated than me on this topic, but I did own research! (on Youtube and Facebook)"

I'd say it's a suspicion of the values and political agendas/biases of intellectuals as a social class.

I know professionals living in other countries who believe every silly conspiracy theory they see on youtube too. That part is a universal problem.

That's a separate, more recent problem IMO. Mistrust of experts and lazy self-affirmation