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'I would rather die': Inside the politics of spite driving Trump voters
Democracy for Thee, Not for MeWhat the Study ShowsA Johns Hopkins Agora Institute study of Trump voters in Michigan, South Carolina, and Wyoming found something more blunt than ignorance: many participants reject democracy because they do not want equal political standing for people they dislike. Jonathan V. Last’s account of the study, plus his own examples, makes the central fact hard to miss. These voters do not merely feel unheard. They describe a politics built around protecting a white, conservative Christian minority from a majority they imagine as hostile, immoral, and undeserving of…
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