https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/15/trumps-fantasy-that-migrants-are-eating-cats-proves-the-meme-has-prevailed-over-real-politics
In American politics, and British politics, signaling an attitude or membership in a tribe tends to take precedence over choosing a policy that will have good results. That is unfortunate because signaling is not a cogent reason for any policy. Thus, policies chosen based on signaling will tend to be bad ones.
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