re: #317 The Ghost of Quesos Past

At the bottom of this is that there’s really no ideology, just incoherent individual beliefs that orbit a base assumption that their emotional impressions are “true.”

Arguments and ideas are being used, piece-meal, to justify what they want as they want it. Beliefs are discarded and picked up as needed.

Hence the proliferation of pseudoscience and the contempt of expertise.

And I think that at the heart of it is why the Never Trumpers don’t like Trump. They feel he’s exposed their ideology or there lack of as you put it for what it really is. It’s just a bunch of overly emotionally assholes who can’t accept a changing world who think they’re the heirs of the Founders when the actual Founders would laugh at their inability to seriously think about issues.