The problem is that Al Qaeda represents an ideological movement, not a finite group of people.
"The problem is that Al Qaeda represents an ideological movement, not a finite group of people," the report said in its executive summary.
But the revolt that brought Trump to power represents an ideological break with any situation the US's myth-makers have known.
And, if that's not ominous enough, consider this: "The problem is that Al Qaeda represents an ideological movement, not a finite group of people.
Attempts to secure the de-politicisation of policy making may at best, be considered laudable, but naïve, and at worst, represents an ideological sleight of hand in attempts to colonise the future.
His de facto nomination has dismayed the so-called media establishment in the United States, which represents an ideological spectrum that includes conservatives.
Less often noted is the fact that it represented a defeat for ideological liberalism, too, with the Democrats fighting on their most moderate platform for decades.
Far from representing an ideological departure from neoliberalism, the unpaid care pledge delivers what neoliberalism does best: it privatises the idea of social care, turning it into an act of individual responsibility and ensuring its material and emotional burden is shouldered even more by those who can't afford it.
At one point, Trump's candidacy seemed to represent an ideological challenge to the Party.
Instead, the class elected this time is made up of five people who represent an ideological mix — and who ran in some cases on their personal biographies.
