Greg Salmela
1 min readOct 7, 2020

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At the heart of this issue is a conflict of differing intelligences and brain physiologies. Specifically, those with emotional intelligence versus those without.

Those who self-identify with Trumpian perspectives, tend to exhibit noticeable deficits in emotional intelligence. What's more interesting, is that emotional intelligence is key to one being able to grasp context.

Regardless of reasoning intelligence, if one is unable to read context, chances are one's arguments are more likely to be based on insular assumptions.

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Greg Salmela

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