This week saw some political wins (and some losses) for a political worldview promoted by former President Trump and now being promulgated by the candidates he has endorsed in the primaries.
Jarringly, these political wins come on the back of the Buffalo massacre that marked one of the most violent racially motivated attacks in decades and sent reverberations through much of the country. The murderer was an adherent of “replacement theory”; a white supremacist belief system that pushes the idea that immigration, interracial marriage, integration, and violence will replace white people.
Our research shows a strong correlation between nativist and white grievance attitudes. We have begun to think of them as an attitudinal syndrome—one comes with the other. CONTINUED
Clifford Young & Sarah Feldman, Ipsos
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