Brexit, Trump, Populism and the empiricist prejudice

                                                                                                             

There is a multitude on the Left, who theorise about situations without having experienced them.  This is  a common empiricist prejudice. For there is no need to have your legs chopped off to sympathise with the legless/

There are whole tribes of  people who suffer from the empiricist illusion that what is real was what you could smell with your own nose and feel with your own fingers.  But there is a far more relevant reason for Brexit, Trump, Populismthe axis, and it is visceral.  

Take Trump there is a character that the soi disant  'benighted' or down trodden adore and that is the ‘character’ of the person  it is not only because they take a stoutly individualist delight in the idiosyncratic, but because a ‘character’ represents the tangible truth of a person rather than the abstract truth of 'leftist'  ideas,  one is caused to wonder if for abstract moral states reflect themselves in physical features, 'you look like one of those bien pensants lefties, or, I can tell you are a Trump supporter by
that pitch fork you are holding.