Faith-based, motivated reasoning, that is very often utterly delusional.
The exact opposite of critical thinking.
The conclusion is already known, the evidence and reasoning must be made to fit.
As opposed to… the evidence is known, the reasoning must lead to any potential conclusion, and when the body of evidence changes, this neccesitates revision of conclusions.
This is a very serious problem for way, way, waaaay more people than just Trump.
Trump just is his own God, as he is a malignant narcissist, but there are basically around 100 million people minimum in the US whose brains basically operate in this way.
It’s the mindset of a religious extremeist.
Faith-based, motivated reasoning, that is very often utterly delusional.
The exact opposite of critical thinking.
The conclusion is already known, the evidence and reasoning must be made to fit.
As opposed to… the evidence is known, the reasoning must lead to any potential conclusion, and when the body of evidence changes, this neccesitates revision of conclusions.
This is a very serious problem for way, way, waaaay more people than just Trump.
Trump just is his own God, as he is a malignant narcissist, but there are basically around 100 million people minimum in the US whose brains basically operate in this way.