The lesson of the past decade of politics should be how eager people are to believe in quick fixes or impending doom, without any rational basis, and how terrified people are of changing their minds.
I'm not sure it cuts all that well along ideological lines or class distribution. It's certainly more pronounced on the right because their elites have abandoned all principals in favour of encouraging these quick wins. But it is the existential problem of modern western democracy, how do you have effective checks and balances while avoiding short sighted decision making.
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