He believes that the voters' preference for emotional engagement over reasonable argument has allowed the Republican Party to blind them to their own real interests.
The Republicans have learnt how to stoke up resentment against the patronising liberal elite, all those do-gooders who assume they know what poor people ought to be thinking.
Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America's poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.
Reminded me the election during my High School days for the post of school representative. I was campaigning for my friend. Maybe we were part of obedient students. Our opponents just spread the message that we would arrange "special classes"( classes for the subjects that couldn't be completed during school working days and hence to be accommodated during weekends). They won a resounding victory.
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