Ism Schism? 0
Mike Littwin argues that the upcoming Presidential election, regardless of the charges of various “isms” that might be thrown about, will not be about ideologies. A snippet (emphasis added):
He fears that, if Trump’s opponents do not understand this, they will fail. And methinks he has a point. The sad fact is that most Americans, if given a test to identify various ideologies from unlabeled, dispassionate descriptions of them, would be lucky to get an F-.
In the United States of America, we don’t “discuss” ideologies. We use them as slurs and libels labels.