Frankly, I read this and I had to go over and reread parts of it. I STILL don’t understand this article, actually.
I got very side-tracked about some guy named Watts saying Republicans believe people are bad and Democrats believe the reverse.
All the other stuff, still doesn’t really explain this liberals view of “why Americans voted for Trump.”
IMO, goggledy gook words on paper.
It was hard to read because the writer could barely grasp what he was attempting to explain.
The people are bad vs people are good part was him trying to wrap his mind around personal responsibility. He saw that a belief in the doctrine of original sin tied into it and he clumsily conflated the ideas.
He’s on the edge of comprehension, but our beliefs are still foreign enough that he can quite articulate them to his fellow libs.