I feel like I wasted 25 min watching that (at 2x).

If your thesis is "The US was founded on anti-intellectual principles" and your only supporting facts are:

   - Some of the early colonists were religiously-driven
   - The inconvenient examples otherwise (e.g. the Enlightenment-influenced founders) can be ignored because some people at the time disliked them
   - Some presidents since have been populists

Then that's a weak argument.

... and also, that could have been a 15 min video without the histrionics.