The Democratic party will continue to get boatraced as long as it keeps reminding Trump voters they're uneducated because they don't have a college degree. That is not at all how you get through to people.

I'll take street smarts over book smarts any day of the week, and I say that as a college-educated man.
 

 This. 

And two of the most well-read "book-smart" people I've ever known didn't finish high school.

Education in the modern world can happen wherever motivation meets access to knowledge.

Credentialism is for midwits and gatekeepers