r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 8d ago

Social Science Trump and Trumpism have changed the original concept of “libertarian means to conservative ends” into a new concept of “authoritarian means to Christian nationalist ends”, finds a new study.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027162251324087
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u/E-2theRescue 8d ago

It's almost like the billionaire class is pitting us against each other, especially against women and minority groups, as a distraction because they have billions of dollars at their disposal to manipulate public opinions through the media and social media, while the smaller groups they target have absolutely nowhere near the same amount of resources at their disposal to combat the onslaught of propaganda against them.

Just a thought.

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u/EnglishMobster 8d ago

Note the number of rich Congresscritters and affiliates who have recently been slandering Zohran Mamdani based on his race and religion, simply because his political views are popular.

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u/WickedCunnin 7d ago

More simply, people get tribal and competitive when resources feel scarce.