Trumps is in!

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Not just Trump the chameleon appeal, his whole tea party Conservative philosophy is magical thinking. I know it from being a Utah Mormon boy.

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I emphasized identity politics in my comment because the author, Arlie Hochschild, explicitly emphasizes this theme. See this excerpt, a summary that comes at the end of what I feel is an excellent article:

Democrats were, he was convinced, continuing to make the government into an instrument of his own marginalization — and media liberals were now ridiculing people like him as ignorant, backward rednecks. Culturally, demographically, economically, and now environmentally, he felt ever more like a stranger in his own land.

It mattered little to him that Donald Trump would not reduce the big government he so fervently wanted cut, or that The Donald was soft on the pro-life, pro-marriage positions he valued, or that he hadn’t uttered a peep about the national debt. None of it mattered because Trump, he felt, would switch off that marginalization machine and restore the honor of his kind of people, of himself. Mike knew that liberals favored care for the environment far more than Republicans, Tea Partiers, or Donald Trump. Yet, despite his lost home in a despoiled land, like others of his older white neighbors back at the Bayou and here in the Basin, Mike was foursquare for Trump; that’s how deeply his pride was injured and a measure of just how much that injury galled him. [emphasis added]

Now I'm not trying to be argumentative. It's just that I understand the point I made, and don't understand yours yet. Can you tell me more about magical thinking and the tea party?