I do have the impression we have one culture-war group that is basically denialist about everything, and another that likes to parade credentials, united across the divide by heroic levels of entitlement https://twitter.com/CJFDillow/status/1253252571260690433

consider MrPhilBollocks Leave Means Leave. it's not just climatology he denies! he doesn't really believe in the virus. when that Icelandic volcano was on, he didn't believe something you couldn't see could endanger aircraft

now consider your favourite FBPE type with their doctorate in their twitter bio. the credentials thing is right there, but the whole message is that if the Experts could activate the queen everything would be fine

both of them, fundamentally, don't believe problems are real. our gammonista just thinks swearing at them will fix it; Karen, meanwhile, wants to speak to a manager

one of them is about performative refusal of expert authority, the other is about performative submission to it, which might explain why there's the related phenomenon of one lot being super-confident while the others are really honestly convinced the bog rolls will run out

one thing I keep seeing from the centrist/fbpe world is a deep sense of elite panic - a belief in social fragility. so many of them really loved that bullshit KFC story. the flip is the Brexit unsinkable salesman stuff