Conservative admits smart people not Conservative

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To apply the term progressive to the working class I don't think is correct, while these people might be in favor of unions and government assistance and other stuff progressives support they never accepted "progressive" social values and have remain personally quite conservative. Progressive social values have gone completely wacko cuckoo, political correctness is suffocating this country and the people naturally are resisting. Most normal people are not ideologues, they vote based on economic or social/cultural self-interest so they are malleable in terms of how to accomplish this. Democrats have moved away from the working class to the corporate donor class, environmentalists, and divisive identity politics all of which pretty much directly oppose the interests of American working class. They have become the dominant party of capital, the party of Wall Street.

This is why Trump scares Democrats so much since economic nationalism is good for the working class while globalism is how these big huge corporations how screwed the working class for decades now, Trump is not an ideologue on social issues and is rebelling against this totalitarian political correctness. Trump wins with your pocketbook, he wins at foreign policy, he promises to be a warrior for the American people which the special interests are at war with. There will be a realignment, American political parties have always shifted in terms of internal factions but the reality is that GOP electorate liked what Trump had to say and his stances on the issues more than what the GOP was offering. Trump essentially ran as an independent in the GOP primary, they rejected the party platform straight up because there is no way Trump would have survived all that he has survived without that.

Was William F. Buckley Jr. smart or not?

Oh, he was. But he could also be a jackass.

Yeah but Buckley and his cohort were a whole nuther kind of conservative... The kind who would call BS on Ayn Rand.

At one time, conservatives could boast of having genuine intellectuals the likes of William F. Buckley in their corner. Today, education and intelligence is seen in many conservative circles as the realm of liberal elitists, preferring the pontifications of such dullards as Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. The right believe they've found their niche among disaffected white working class people, and the rural underclass, who see their notions of religion, sexuality, and race relations under fire, and they play such people with their fears for all they're worth.

Santorum is upset because he sees education as a threat to faith.

They still do have some intellectuals and educated academics on their side. Though they have largely retreated from the colleges and have taken refuge in think tanks and places like liberty university. I would regard this as a mistake for the conservatives to cede the ground of academia. If they were sensible they would try to take back a significant stage in colleges and the media; so that they balance out the influence. If they continue to allow their opponents to dominate these areas without contest, then the young will be largely swept up.