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One great weakness of Jonathan Haidt’s analysis is that he imagines that the Republican Party has “killed off its moderates” in the House.
Turns out what he really means by that is that he defines moderate as open anti-Trumper, so that Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney are the the only Republican “moderates”.
It’s not clear how much of both professors’ tendency to “dump on Trump” is sincere, and how much is simply a sacrifice at the altar, required to survive in academia.