If she's brighter than she's making herself out to be she's confirming the belief among too many Americans that 'being intelligent isn't cool'. IMO that's one of the major reasons the world is eating our lunch along with lowered expectations combined with a major sense of entitlement.
That said, probably half the US population couldn't pick Europe off a map, much less Hungary. Or know that there's no A in 'definitely' or the difference between 'imply' and 'infer'. None of that has anything to do with intelligence, though it does reveal ignorance.