Thought this entry of the 538 live blog was pretty interesting:
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Authoritarianism Is For Other People
I’ve seen three compelling analyses of what explains the support for Donald Trump so far. There’s the authoritarianism argument, which suggests that what distinguishes Trump supporters from other Republican voters is their preference for strong leadership and intolerance for deviation. Then this week, two political scientists wrote a piece for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog arguing that Trump supporters are not authoritarians but populists who identify with those out of power.
And on Vox’s Mischiefs of Faction blog (where I am a regular contributor), Lilliana Mason and Nicholas Davis find that Trump supporters have a fully “sorted” Republican social identity — that is, strong identification with all three groups associated with the Republican Party: whites, traditional Republicans and conservative Christians.
Can these theories all be true? Perhaps one explanation will emerge as the correct one. But I wonder if this also suggests that Trump supporters simultaneously embrace authoritarian values when it comes to those who don’t share their politics, race and religion, and have a healthy populist suspicion of power for themselves and those like them. This would be consistent with research on the tea party that suggests its appeal is not so much about limiting government programs, but limiting programs that provide for undeserving outsiders.
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But yeah - I don't know if foreign policy for Trump supporters needs to be any more nuanced than "screw em all - they're not us!"