The Republican base seems willing to believe anything their leadership tells them. It would be worth understanding why.pic.twitter.com/1bA3bN1ZwY
This is the behavior of zealots. What has turned them into zealots? Not the economy: the economy doesn't do that.
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My guess is that they're driven by a deep, identity-based dislike of liberalism. They despise NPR culture, partly because it despises them.
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That's why that remark about "deplorables" provoked such a reaction.
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The radicalisation and zealotry is a feature of tribe-siloised early information society. Everyone does it. Hopefully a transient problem.
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Have you read Eric Hoffer's “The True Believer”? Some possible insights into movement formation and cult-like adherence.
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