When you analyze the past couple of years, this makes LOTS of sense, because America isn't really doing well in the WE'RE GREAT AGAIN department. Not at least from where I'm sitting.
Unfortunately, nothing is going to change the fact that people of color, woman, alternative lifestyles, etc., are done submitting to the same old same old.
Heck, the communists were ousted in Europe by people simply saying they'd had enough. Will the same happen here? Or has it already happened?
Can't stop it, folks.
Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds
By Niraj Chokshi
April 24, 2018
Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to “economic anxiety.” Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.
Or so that narrative goes.
A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters weren’t driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk.
“It’s much more of a symbolic threat that people feel,’’ said Diana C. Mutz, the author of the study and a political science and communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. “It’s not a threat to their own economic well-being; it’s a threat to their group’s dominance in our country over all.”
The study is not the first to cast doubt on the prevailing economic anxiety theory. Last year, a Public Religion Research Institute survey of more than 3,000 people also found that Mr. Trump’s appeal could better be explained by a fear of cultural displacement.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/u...imes&smtyp=cur
A Trump supporter at a campaign rally in Sacramento in June 2016. A new study found that many Trump voters were driven by fear of losing their status in society.CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times
from me....
Originally Posted by winndixie
