I find seven of their credos to be most pervasive and problematic and I’ve devoted a chapter to each: our innate desire for a strongman to fix our problems and punish those who aggrieve us; the temptation to feel chosen, which justifies acting on our base desires; our knee-jerk anti-authoritarianism and anti-intellectualism; our impulse to buy and sell salvation on the open market; the belief that hard work is holy, while idleness is a sin; how quickly and easily we fall into us-versus-them thinking; and, finally, an innate need for order, which makes us vulnerable to anyone screaming,
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