MAGA Thinks Like Seven-Year-Old Children
Every parent who has ever caught a child doing something wrong has heard the same defense. “But I didn’t get in trouble for it.”
The child does not argue that the action was right or that the action was justified.
The child’s entire moral framework rests on a single variable: did punishment follow? If the answer is no, the child concludes the action was acceptable.
This reasoning is normal in a seven-year-old. It is evidence of a brain that has not yet developed the capacity for abstract moral thought.
The child will grow out of it, given adequate development, socialization and guidance.
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