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In "The Effect of White Social Prejudice on Support for American Democracy," a pair of political scientists used data from the World Values Survey to analyze the rise of authoritarian, anti-democratic rhetoric among American white people.
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The authors released a prepub of their work last year; as I wrote then, "White Americans abandoned democracy and embraced authoritarianism when they realized brown people would soon outvote them."
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The paper has now been accepted for publication in the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, and this has spurred fresh attention for the study and its conclusions.
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Writing on @NBCNews, @nberlat invokes the neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, who said "We need an ethno-state so that our people can ‘come home again’… We must give up the false dreams of equality and democracy."
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But he could just as readily have cited Peter Theil& #39;s avowed belief that "freedom" is incompatible with "democracy" (because in a democratic system, plutocrats would be outvoted and thus not free to exploit the rest of us).
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This is why the GOP is so committed to voter suppression - and why the real strategic battleground of the civil rights era was voter-registration, not lunch-counters.
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But after a brief flirtation with luring conservative, Catholic latinx people to the GOP by making abortion into a wedge issue, the party abandoned that strategy and pivoted to Trumpism, which, at its core, denies the legitimacy racialized people& #39;s claims of Americanness.
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That& #39;s why armed white militias are demanding to know if American indigenous people are "legal." "Legal" doesn& #39;t mean "legally in the USA" - it means "white."
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But after years of turkeys voting for Christmas, the GOP is struggling to get poor whites to vote for plutocracy - workers are skeptical of claims that they need to submit gracefully to being thrown into a volcano to appease the economy gods.
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Which makes the authoritarian turn in US politics all the more frightening - the farmer may have convinced the turkeys to vote for Christmas with honeyed words and big promises, but when the day comes, he& #39;s not above wringing their necks.
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And while I& #39;m as furious as I can be with the Democratic party, its corporate sellouts, and its garbage policies, the authoritarian turn is mostly owned by the GOP.
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"The GOP has dug itself into such a hole on this that the most practical effort to stave off these impending losses is to disenfranchise the votes of the same ethnic/racial outgroups against whom GOP messaging has been stoking animosity."
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"Social intolerance isn& #39;t just leading to GOP support as we know it and see it now. It& #39;s leading to preferences in favor of the kind of candidate the GOP ultimately nominated and supported for president." - @stevenvmiller
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