“In pursuit of scientific rigor, these scholars subscribe…to a conception of ideology as something measurable through the affirmation of isolated beliefs on a survey (that is, mostly in our heads). But ideologies are holistic phenomena: large-scale narratives that not only guide action but are embodied in…our social rituals & ways of organizing. The entire modern political world is the artifact of various heterogeneous ideologies that we participate in unthinkingly”
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/01/in-the-land-of-the-data-blind-jason-blakely-political-science-trumpism/