Donald Trump is the perfect tribal chief for ‘palaeoliths’ in MAGA tees’n’baseball caps
Donald Trump. Yet, there's an even chance that he'd emerge victorious from the Nov 5 US presidential election. How do Trump and his team manage to distort reality so well?
A big part of the problem is what sociobiologist Edward O Wilson identified: humans have palaeolithic emotions, mediaeval institutions and godlike technology. Trump is tall, walks taller, talks loud, is rich, and projects power. That is enough to make him leader for 21st-century cavemen in MAGA tees and baseball caps.
He feeds fear of the outsider, with his charge that illegal immigrants are rapists, killers and drug peddlers, and promises to undertake the largest deportation of aliens the world has seen. The tribe, forever wary of strangers, rallies around this protector.
Millions of Americans subscribe to the QAnon conspiracy theory: Democrats are part of a Satan-worshipping paedophile ring, and Trump is the anointed saviour sent by god to quell this evil. Trump, when asked on TV to denounce this bit of crazy, refused to, and praised the believers' opposition to paedophilia.
Satan, of course, strode across medieval Europe as a physical being with horns and a pointy tail, rather than as a symbolic representation of evil. Another medieval trope playing out in US politics is faith-based opposition to abortion. Evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics support Trump and oppose Democrats, and everyone else who believes that women should have the primary say on what happens to their own bodies.
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