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Keely Hughes's avatar

“Contrary to the assessments of modern political punditry, Republicans are more susceptible to identity-based politics.” lol

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Sol's avatar

I think there's diversity of ideology because they don't actually have one, it's just stand behind Trump. You can be a frog-right ancap, or a social conservative with welfare sympathies like Josh Hawley, and be accepted as long as you back Trump.

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Sillygoat's avatar

Exactly. In the quotes from the study the author gives, no evidence is presented to say it's really about 'white identity'. It's Trump worship, plain and simple. Dems are captured by an ideology, Republicans by a personality. If it was only the racist Ann Coulter types voting Trump he wouldn't have won the last election.

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

This is truly the best presentation of what the Repugnicans are, how they think, what they believe and why they don't understand America that I've read on substacks. Ramaswamy is the perfect example of the corporate racism RePugs sell. They allow rare brown and black participation, but never an actual seat at the table.

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Bad Bunny's avatar

"MAGA thought leaders present their movement as a bastion of free thought, claiming they attract disparate Americans with open-mindedness and intellectual rigor."

C'est à rire.

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Ken Kovar's avatar

Bloody risible ain’t it?? 😆

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

Oui!!

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

Check out the Anti-tRump crowd who watched Les Mis (about the French Revolution (when they got rid of the KING) ,, then started yelling "Felon, convicted Felon" at tRump and Melania as they tried to leave! BWAHAHAHA...

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Poogles's avatar

Oh I think I participated in this study by taking the quiz, it was fascinating!

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sasha's avatar

Feels telling that Anne Coulter didn't call Vivek "Indian", but "an Indian", like an object not a description.

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Ken Kovar's avatar

What a racist b she is 😁

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Anonymous Dude's avatar

It’s more of a ‘follow the leader’ situation than a real policy program, I agree.

The catch is the Democrats’ ideological uniformity makes it harder for them to move to the center to capture swing voters.

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Ken Kovar's avatar

But actually the democrats possess real centrists

that are not kicked out of the party. Think about blue dog democrats like Joe Manchin and Jarred Golden. Clearly Manchin was able to appeal to swing voters, he won a state basically populated by them 😊 Also please check out the Substack Slow Boring and the Liberal Patriot. They are not exactly AOC ideologically but they are definitely still democrats!

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Ken Kovar's avatar

This study is clearly a serious attempt to clarify political attitudes and its impact on voting and influence but it is a jargon filled hot mess!

"We apply a newly developed attitude network-modelling technique (Response-Item Network, or ResIN) to study attitude–identity relationships in the context of hot–button issues that polarize the current US-American electorate. The properties of the network–method allow us to simultaneously depict differences in the structural organization of attitudes between groups and to explore the relevance of organized attitude–systems for group identity management. Individuals based on a sample of US-American crowd workers (N = 396) and the representative 2020 ANES data set (N = 8280), we model an attitude network with two conflictive partisan belief-systems. In the first step, we demonstrate that the structural properties of the attitude-network provide substantial information about latent partisan identities, thereby revealing which attitudes ‘belong’ to specific groups. In a second step, we evaluate the potential of attitudes to communicate identity-relevant information. Results from a vignette study suggest that people rely on their mental representations of attitude-identity links to structure and evaluate their social environment. By highlighting functional interdependences between (macro level) attitude structures and identity management, the presented findings help advancing the understanding of attitude-identity dynamics and socio-political cleavages."

Is this a transparent, easily parsed and understood prose??? Well this is why it can be used by right wing activists to claim that they are the real tolerant ones. WTF is an attitude network... WTF is a crowd worker.. guys drop the jargon and speak English!

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Ken Kovar's avatar

Great post! And let’s not forget that the forerunner of MAGA was the Tea Party a overwhelmingly white movement heavily motivated by the election of the first black president 😡

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James Talley's avatar

Thanks for this. I saw the graphics and claim, but I had no time to dig into the BS.

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Nancy Taylor's avatar

Takes one to know one, if that's your best shot.

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