From Yale Law to Oath Keepers: Stewart Rhodes’s Unlikely Journey https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-yale-law.html
The source of this befuddlement stems from modern society's worship at the altar of rationalism, as though knowledge, education, and intelligence will right all the wrongs in the world. Certainly these are all good things.
However, evil usually isn't just a matter of either ignorance or stupidity: It is a matter of the heart.