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So it has tricky normative implications, in my view.”

But this mentality — or to be more specific, what you aptly call Democrats’ “normative priors” — makes for purely reactive politics.

This is not a normative claim; it is an evidence-based assessment of Trump’s impact on American society and the world and its historical trajectory.

This tendency accelerated and became normative in the Republican Party under Trump, whose non-stop lying offered even more permission to right-wingers to tell themselves dishonesty is no sin if it serves their cause.

In his emphasis on the gap between our surface words or actions and their deeper psychological meanings or feelings, Jung would probably say that irony questions and subverts normative cultural narratives.