Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
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Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Yes, you could argue that many Trump fanatics lack basic human empathy (or at least, are ambivalent to the suffering of others). But let’s be honest — the rest of us have been struggling with empathy for some time now.
Politics seems to offer an arena of moral action. To be moral in this world, you don’t have to feed the hungry or sit with the widow. You just have to be liberal or conservative, you just have to feel properly enraged at the people you find contemptible.
David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
The many analysts, including me, who had argued that Trump could not win the general election were relying on pre-Babel intuitions, which said that scandals such as the Access Hollywood tape (in which Trump boasted about committing sexual assault) are fatal to a presidential campaign. But after Babel, nothing really means anything anymore––at least... See more