The Louisiana governor, alternately smug and jejune, articulated precisely the ideology — those G.O.P. "policies" in the Times/CBS poll — that Americans reject: the conviction that government is useless and has no role in an emergency.
(The right-wing government in Poland, for example, espouses "a combination of Polish nationalism, religious conservatism, anti-elitism and attacks on those supposedly seeking to dictate to Poland about values and migrant quotas"). This is precisely the ideology Stephen K. Bannon attempts to promote, and for which his former boss seemed the ideal vessel.
When it comes to Oliver Stone's comments, it's precisely that ideology which is visible.
The problem with photography that tries to wake up the world to conflict and suffering is that cruel and violent human situations come about precisely because ideologies – from nationalism to religion to liberal imperialism – ignore reality and blind themselves to others' pain.
As such, conservatism is, very precisely, a reactionary ideology.
It is precisely how Islamist ideology does as well, evident, for example, in the principles and founding documents of Hamas and Hezbollah.
"The reason why Beethoven is assumed to be the most masculine of composers," she writes, "is that what he and his music stand for is precisely the same ideology that tries to attain universal society in theory while maintaining male domination in practice".
In CBS News/New York Times polls taken in February 2000 and January this year, the percentages of respondents who aligned themselves with a given party or ideology were almost precisely the same.
"The Chinese Communists are concentrating on economics, seeking to make themselves part of globalization, and are courting friends internationally precisely by discarding their erstwhile ideology," he wrote in 2006.
He is despised by the French and German characters alike, not because he has subscribed to a criminal ideology but because, precisely, he has done nothing at all — a position more than one Frenchman must have found himself in during those leaden years.
