buy it hook line and sinker. Then the trumpians can't change because they are afraid of the base.

Abusers are often people who themselves were abused.

Maybe these mass abusers were abused on a massive scale themselves as children? We already know that Trump's daddy was less than a sterling role model. Maybe that's the case with all of them?

They are only too happy to pass them on to another generation of defenseless children.

said as much. And if Trumpy says they’re animals, his true believers will always agree. MAGA for Nazis.

your list as an excellent example.

I just got the thought out there and posted hastily.

minds, they don't stink.

When they emerge from the room, they don't smell anything, but everyone else retches at their stink

they would support those things even NOW .

It was "the law," after all.

predispositions to personality traits, and then environment kicks in.

No "there but for the grace of god go I" for me and Ingraham. I was born wired liberal and had a very hard, deprived childhood, but could never be her. Nor she me.

Reality is that conservatives see moral issues differently. They're not nature's flawed liberals. They actually think somewhat differently and yet often virtually the same. They are just as caring and generous as liberals, but to smaller groups, people they see as their own, especially blood. Which is why we can in total agreement about helping an elderly neighbor be able to continue to live at home but on nonintersecting lines when it comes to national programs.

I started reading about this when, once again, I couldn't understand why almost every conservative I knew was more energized and emotionally engaged with the issue of vulgar language in public than child sex slavery and went around saying things like "the F word" instead of fuck, as if they weren't the same thing.

Fascinating subject; but skip, or read critically, Jonathan Chait's work. Much of what he "found" about me just didn't ping true, and I found that a lot of his peers think it's seriously flawed. But if he fails to give liberals our due in comparing to conservatives,and whatever else, there is still a whole lot of insight to be gained about the latter.