A true believer will often transition seamlessly from one extreme cause to another because the psychological need for blind faith remains identical

 

Trump's tone is the least of our problems: 43% of Democrats in Iowa describe themselves as socialists

Bloomberg poll, here.

The triumph of ideological thinking on both the left and the right can be seen in the equal disdain both have for "isolationism". Poking our noses into other people's business is evidently now synonymous with being an American.

And the Republicans obviously haven't read Eric Hoffer.

Eric Hoffer For Our Times

"Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America," Eric Hoffer said.

"A ruling intelligentsia," he said, ". . . treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed and wasted at will."