Voldemort's Ideology

Interesting discussion of Ideology with regards to Voldemort.

I want to make three distinct arguments:

1. Voldemort does not need an ideology to succeed in the context of the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
2. Voldemort has an ideology.
3. In most cases, ideology is part of the backstory and rarely will be developed as explicitly as Somin apparently desires.

Some of these arguments may seem inconsistent, but one of the first things I learned in law school is that lawyers need to be able to make the famous kettle argument with a straight face. (In the “Case of the Kettle,” the plaintiff sought damages for a kettle that he claimed the defendant had borrowed and returned cracked. The defendant's counsel responded with three distinct defenses: (1) Defendant did not borrow the kettle. (2) The kettle is not now and never was cracked. (3) The kettle was cracked when the defendant borrowed it.)