It was February 2016 and Donald Trump stood on the stage in a ballroom at the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, soaking in his victory in the Nevada caucuses – his third straight primary season triumph – and he riffed on the win.

“We won the evangelicals, we won with young, we won with old, we won with highly educated, we won with poorly educated,” Trump said as he broke down the demographics of his coalition of supporters in the Silver State.

“I love the poorly educated,” he said in a now-famous line from his victory speech.

I’m beginning to think all the Republican Party loves the poorly educated – so much so, they’re willing to do whatever they can to keep them that way.

What is Dolly Parton's Imagination Library?

The latest evidence of that is the efforts by the GOP all over the country to either slash or defund Dolly Parton's Imagination Library – a program created by the beloved country music icon that sends free books each month to children from birth to their 5th birthday.

In some states, the Republicans have complained and said some of the books are not age appropriate. In Kentucky, they went from griping that some of the books aren’t printed in the United States to not explaining exactly what their trouble........

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