As a candidate for President, Donald Trump defied recent norms for presidential candidates with several racially charged statements. Did that rhetoric—and the 2016 campaign more generally—affect voters’ support for Trump in his general-election contest with Hillary Clinton? Given prior research on prejudice and priming, a few research questions loom especially […] Read more »
How to Beat Trump at His Own Game
“Democrat Savages,” President Trump recently tweeted, are driving the impeachment against him. When he then named in particular two Jewish congressmen and four congresswomen of color — Jerry Nadler of New York, Adam Schiff of California and the quartet that includes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — the racist connotations […] Read more »
How ‘White Guilt’ in the Age of Trump Shapes the Democratic Primary
… For years, prospective Democratic nominees came to Iowa to talk ethanol and pork subsidies and saved any rhetoric about the injustice of racial profiling for crowds in South Carolina and Nevada — the only early voting states where black and Latino voters made up a significant portion of the […] Read more »
Trump backfire: Americans increasingly embrace ‘nation of immigrants’ history and future
Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower in June 2015, lamented that Mexico sends us its worst, murderers and rapists. His convention speech featured mothers whose loved ones were murdered by illegal immigrants, and he attacked Hillary Clinton for supporting open borders. Later, according to a new book, […] Read more »
The Banality of Bigotry
… To be blunt, racism is not typically dramatic and ostentatious. It is most often banal—a mundane, omnipresent fact of life that is embedded in the daily habits and routines of our society. Despite the rhetoric that likens prejudice to a violent assault, racism is, in its most consequential form, […] Read more »
Rising Secularism and the Vanishing Latinx Republicans
In 2004 the exit polls reported that about 40 percent of Latinxs voted for George W. Bush’s reelection, the highest percentage ever of Latinxs for a Republican candidate. There was talk about Latinxs potentially helping the Republican Party become a more diverse organization and competitive among people of color. As […] Read more »