Why the MAGA Cult Thinks Like 10 Year Olds
Before the age of 11, the human brain cannot think abstractly.
It processes the world the only way it knows how. In concrete terms.
One cause. One villain. One answer. That is not a limitation of intelligence. It is a stage of cognitive development. The brain has not yet built the wiring to hold two competing ideas at the same time, evaluate both, and sit with the discomfort of not knowing which one is right.
Most people grow out of this stage.
But most people aren’t MAGA.
Psychologists call it construal level theory. It describes how the brain shifts between two modes of thinking. Abstract…
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