The MAGA Formula Is Getting Darker and Darker

The chilling amalgam of Christian nationalism, white replacement theory and conspiratorial zeal — from QAnon to the “stolen” 2020 election — has attracted a substantial constituency in the United States, thanks in large part to the efforts of Donald Trump and his advisers. By some estimates, adherents of these overlapping […] Read more »

Most Voters Back Stricter Gun Control Measures After Buffalo — and Many See White Nationalism as a Critical Threat

Following Saturday’s mass shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y., that authorities say was racially motivated, a new Morning Consult survey shows most voters continue to support stricter gun-control measures, though that level of backing has declined since President Joe Biden took office last year. What’s more, the […] Read more »

How white racism and anti-democracy elite rhetoric create the conditions for right-wing violence

… When a man walked into a grocery store in a predominantly black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, yesterday and shot 13 people, killing 10, he illustrated the extreme consequences of the same minoritarian, anti-democracy thinking that is used to justify things like ending Roe and the existence of the […] Read more »

Immigration Attitudes and Conspiratorial Thinkers

After years of heated rhetoric around immigration and its impacts, new data from an AP-NORC poll reveals that two-thirds of Americans feel the country’s diverse population makes the US stronger – less than 10% say diversity weakens the country. Still, roughly one in three (32%) adults agree that a group […] Read more »