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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (179575)	9/2/2020 12:43:37 PM
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washingtonpost.com Analysis \| The Republicans least committed to democratic principles are those most worried about White America Philip Bump 6-7 minutes There are certain elements that are central to the American democratic experiment. Rule of law. Equal opportunity. A government determined by free, open, democratic elections. These values are at times strained — or intentionally constrained — but they are precepts that are central to the way in which the country governs itself. They are also ideas that Americans seem increasingly willing to abandon. That’s particularly true among one subset of the population: Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who hold views centered on concern about the growing non-White minority. Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences articulates the link between what author Larry Bartels of Vanderbilt University describes as “ethnic antagonism” and views that run contrary to core democratic principles. Bartels’s research involved asking respondents whether they agreed with each of four statements: “The traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it." “A time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.” “Strong leaders sometimes have to bend the rules in order to get things done." “It is hard to trust the results of elections when so many people will vote for anyone who offers a handout.” Most Republicans and Republican-leaning independents agreed with the first statement, that it might be necessary to use force to save the “traditional American way of life.” Nearly three-quarters agreed that election results should be treated with skepticism, given the numbed [sic] of “handouts” people receive. Respondents were significantly more likely to say they agreed with the other two statements than that they disagreed. Bartels was interested in determining what factors overlapped with support for those statements. A number of basic demographic factors — education, amount of interest in politics, region — didn’t yield any significant differences. Continued...