Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
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Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
Once the fog of political warfare that surrounds an election has cleared, we could discover that most of our fellow citizens are not irredeemably indifferent to Trump’s evident vices; that whatever explains their attachment to the president, it is not that they repudiate the values he does not respect. Our tribal prejudices are at their worst in
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The leader who claims to embody “the truth” becomes attractive not only ideologically but structurally. Certainty simplifies, lowers the cognitive costs of decision, and offers security in the face of fragility. Authoritarianism is not only a political pathology; it is an epistemic adaptation to vulnerability.
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In short, several generations, including my own, were not taught the skills they would need in order to see, understand, and respect other people in all their depth and dignity. The breakdown in basic moral skills produced disconnection, alienation, and a culture in which cruelty was permitted. Our failure to treat each other well in the small
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Trump revels in chaos, and most people don’t; they will do anything to get the noise to stop.
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Twenty-five years ago Allan Bloom proclaimed a heresy: The supposed idealism of the 1960s was in fact a veneer hiding a new barbarism. He saw that our elite liberal culture has a very definite vision, however much it talks about diversity, multiculturalism, and the like: the relativism of moral truth. This anti-dogmatic dogma, he thought, is... See more