The Republicans of 1996, in terms of region and ethnicity, if not of ideology, resemble the Democrats of 1932--an 1932--an 1932--anerners allianceerners with descendants of largely Catholic European immigrantSouthernersrtheand.
The dominant groups among the insurgents today are jihadi, with ambitions beyond Kashmir, and with ideologies that resemble in some ways that of Al Qaeda.
In this head-on challenge to power and ideology, Trump resembles Thatcher far more than Reagan.
For one thing, that claim implies he has something resembling a coherent ideology and some core principles.
Alliances and ideologies are impermanent, which is one reason Afghanistan has had nothing resembling a stable central government for much of its existence.
It was a detached gesture, unconnected to anything resembling a sequence of other actions, much less an ideology.
It was during the Johnson presidency that ideology relative to political sym- bols began to take a form resembling the current political landscape.
While old and new ideology seemingly mesh within the Patriot Act, the truth is that in the name of fighting terrorism, it has transformed a free, open, inimitably attractive democracy into something resembling an insular fortress of Kafkaesque absurdity.
In their mystical simplicity, such theories resemble the ideology of the Maoist rebel groups in Nepal who, in the last five years, have managed to control large "liberated zones" in the country's hilly West.
With no overarching ideology, the party has often resembled a vipers nest of deeply divided factions, ranging from conservative rural landowners and urban social democrats to evangelical nationalists and former guerrillas whose only common ground is a desire to secure the patronage, prestige and – very often – bribes that come with government posts.
They have tiny memberships and thus inevitably have limited interaction with or knowledge of wider society.They are closed-off worlds in which the activists increasingly resemble each other, and where ideology has replaced ideas and debate.
