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-3 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 12 September 2015 03:44PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 14 September 2015 04:50:56PM 2 points [-]

Without those conditions, there is nothing particularly obnoxious or irrational going on.

So it's just like "Get Jeremy Corbyn out of my brain: The neuroscience that explains why he’s running away with Labour"..?

Comment author: gjm 14 September 2015 11:14:50PM -1 points [-]

I doubt that would be as effective in hooking Salon readers, and I don't know whether there's a half-plausible story one can tell about the psychological underpinnings of Corbyn's success. But if those things are true then yes, Corbyn would then work about as well for this purpose as Trump.