That's [whatever] Derangement Syndrome.

here is Paul Samuelson:

Libertarians are not just bad emotional cripples. They are also bad advice givers.

. . . 4) When I see people writing sentences of this kind, I imagine them pressing a little button which makes them temporarily less intelligent. Because, indeed, that is how one's brain responds when one employs this kind of emotionally charged rhetoric.

As you go through life and read various writers, I want you to keep this idea of the button in mind. As you are reading, think "Ah, he [she] is pressing the button now!"

That may be helpful. I see this in my own stuff but thought of it as being inarticulate, of wanting to explain some important point but failing to find the words and settling for making noises and pointing. Gah!

And, I see it and post about it in the writing of others. In the previous post about an otherwise useful article about soil degradation the author ended with what seemed to me to be a brain dead claim that "farmers in the Midwest . . . continue to use huge harvesters because they can't afford the labor to run several smaller machines." It's a button push, a temporary loss of intelligence for emotional reasons.