Perhaps you’re right. But, even if they don’t spend time reading and debating Derrida it sounds plausible to me that they’d react negatively to the consequences of Postmodernism - whether they know that’s what it is doesn’t matter.

Speaking anecdotally, the majority of the people I know for which this applies are college students and majoring in mathematics or the hard sciences. It appears the Two Cultures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures) are becoming further estranged from one another.

A whole lot of the people propagandizing them spend a lot of time talking about it. I agree that “being influenced by propaganda about X” and “thinking about X” are not the same thing.

But then, with that distinction in mind, I don't think Trump voters, in general, spend a lot of time thinking about political and social issues at all.

Of course not. But they demonstrably spend time hating other people in order to make themselves feel better.

And if the people in question are huffing their own farts, it's just more grist for the mill.

Do you mean the Trump voters or the academic postmodernists?

The Trump voters are laughing at the academics who are huffing their own farts.