The truckers’ protest in Ottawa is the latest barrage from the world’s disaffected in the revolt that found expression in the 2016 election of Donald Trump; the 2017 Unite the Right march on Charlottesville, Va.; the rise of QAnon; and the Jan. 6 insurrection in the halls of Congress. One […] Read more »
Why Voter Suppression Probably Won’t Work
Key Points• In the aftermath of the high-turnout 2020 election, many Republican-controlled state governments have passed legislation that Democrats believe will harm their party’s voter turnout.• However, voting rules did not appear to have much impact on turnout and had no measurable impact on vote margins at the state level […] Read more »
What America Would Look Like in 2025 Under Trump
What will happen if the political tables are turned and the Republican Party wins the White House in 2024 and the House and Senate along the way? One clue is that Donald Trump is an Orban worshiper — that’s Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, a case study in […] Read more »
America Has Split, and It’s Now in ‘Very Dangerous Territory’
… Polarization has become a force that feeds on itself, gaining strength from the hostility it generates, finding sustenance on both the left and the right. A series of recent analyses reveals the destructive power of polarization across the American political system. The United States continues to stand out among […] Read more »
Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie
Why is Donald Trump’s big lie so hard to discredit? This has been a live question for more than a year, but inside it lies another: Do Republican officials and voters actually believe Trump’s claim that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election by corrupting ballots — the same ballots that […] Read more »
Martin Luther King Jr. was right. Racism and opposition to democracy are linked, our research finds.
… In a survey of a nationally representative sample of 1,000 American adults fielded Dec. 14 to 20, we asked respondents about their views on racism in American society — specifically, whether they agreed that White people enjoy advantages based on skin color or that racial problems were isolated situations, […] Read more »