

“The longer people stay in school, it seems the dumber they become,”
What she means is that exposure to new ideas usually makes people change their beliefs, and this is a bad, bad thing because that usually involves ditching their parents failed conservative ideas. Right wingers hate education because it shrinks their base. Science = bad is a scream of frustration.
That’s par for the course. Trump’s “locker room talk” about the joys of sexual assault happened when he was in his 60’s, but they still hand waved it away as if it was a minor transgression by a teenager.