>>797742Because political alignment nowadays is fundamentally decided by personality type: open minded, agreeable, ambiently neurotic leftists/libs and closed minded, disagreeable, paranoid-neurotic rightoids. Trump is constantly broadcast being an asshole who triggers well-meaning liberals, which is the psychological motivation underpinning their petty nationalism.
(Well, that and status and, for want of a better word, taste.)
The utter incoherence of most people's policy views click when you understand this. Why does a TERF Scottish nationalist MP
an anomaly, Scottish nationalism is a progressive "civic" Celtic type and mostly appeals to that psychological profile, socdem rather than far right cheer an English court claiming Scotland's parliament has no rights whatsoever? Because the second order effect is to hurt transgender people, of which the second order effect is to upset the young progressives they resent. If you look at the ideologies it's incoherent but the psychology adds up.