0 the wish to have or do two good things at the same time when this is impossible. This word comes from the phrase "to have your cake and eat it too":
He denies that there is any downside to his policies; his doctrine is one of cakeism.
The article says that those pushing for Brexit are guilty of cakeism.
You can't be the president's daughter when it suits you and an adviser at other times: this is cakeism.
For me there is a sense of "cakeism" about the book - that the practices and thinking described are somehow both radical and traditional.