I didn’t finish reading the whole thing yet—need dinner first. But maybe the reason they never interact with gun loving, immigrant-hating, uneducated yayhoos is

I didn’t finish reading the whole thing yet—need dinner first. But maybe the reason they never interact with gun loving, immigrant-hating, uneducated yayhoos is because they’re looking at a statistical amalgamation of individual beliefs. Most republicans won’t fit that mold because they’re a mass of individuals with different beliefs and these lumps of commonality are weak, but natural modalities of a social species. In other words they hate a caricature—an enemy that only really exists in statistics but not in the real world.