Your savant class is a straw dog. Probably you don't include progressives among a savant class. Oregon has a motor-voter law, and Oregon went for Clinton. The ignorant went for Trump. The electoral college chose the loser of the popular vote by the biggest margin in the history of the electoral college going against the popular vote. I see no linearity in your train of logic. Sorry, Motley, maybe I AM dense. My apology!