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“It encourages emotion to drive our decision-making behavior, as opposed to logic,” Wright said.

The media and punditry’s other problem is their need to reduce social groups into simple binaries and abstractions that can provide a clean narrative but impose an incorrect logic on how America’s polity votes.

The reason cited is illegal construction but experts have questioned the logic and say there is no legal justification for doing this.

It’s the kind of upside-down logic commonly found in abusive relationships, whenever the abuser is challenged.

Certainly not, but political decisions are driven by emotion and narrative, not instrumental logic.