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Originally Posted by SuperSymmetry
The rise of American authoritarianism - Vox
Here's a neat article on Trump's popularity that you could read, Will. The author lets some of her own views and biases slip in there occasionally, but the info in it is otherwise solid if not really interesting. It's kinda long, but I think it's well worth the read.
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Thanks SuperS that is an
excellent article, though
heavily biased as you point out, I don't particularly trust the stats they use though, for instance it states...
A PPP poll found that a third of Trump voters support banning gays and lesbians from the country.
That sounded suspicious to me because poll after poll has shown that Trump supporters are different from other Republicans in that they don't care about social issues like gay marriage and abortion, so I checked the source and found...
Data from Public Policy Polling show that a third of Mr. Trump’s backers in South Carolina support barring gays and lesbians from entering the country.
Now from a Canadian perspective, the idea that anyone could even contemplate supporting the above statement, to me is f'n disgusting and reprehensible....
but if you walk into a republican primary in one of the most conservative states in the union, and ask the views of frontrunners supporters (who has largely captured the evangelical vote from Cruz in this state) what their views are, your going to get some far right stuff.
To state that this is the views of Trumps supporters is highly disingenuous, I doubt this would be the case at a Republican primary in Seattle or New York.
So I think the article hit the nail on head with the authoritarianism, but at the same time I think it went out of its way to try and paint Trump supporters as suffering from an innate personality defect that threatens America.
I really enjoyed reading it though, thank you for your contribution! please feel free to send me links in the future.