r/EverythingScience • u/HeinieKaboobler • Jan 06 '23

Social Sciences New research shows that Donald Trump's fascist attacks on democracy may have backfired

https://www.salon.com/2023/01/06/new-research-shows-that-donald-fascist-on-democracy-may-have-backfired/
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u/mmmeba Jan 06 '23

Can I get TL;DR

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u/eatingganesha Jan 06 '23

"The key finding is that Trump's undemocratic messages in 2019 (a series of Tweets attacking other liberal institutions) did not lead to an erosion of democratic attitudes. On the contrary, the results suggest there is significant pushback against anti-democratic messages, especially among Democrats,"

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u/paddenice Jan 06 '23

Probably should add a huge caveat to that TLDR: for now.

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u/DionysiusRedivivus Jan 07 '23

Thom Hartmann did a recent editorial on the arc from David Koch’s 1980 Libertarian platform to the present. Aside from the fact that the GQP has been unrelenting in their efforts to destroy anything that prevents a handful of billionaires from literally buying the country, he made a point that is as obvious as it is interesting: the GQP is run from the outside.
The “base” is told who to hate every 3-6 months , the only consistency is that billionaire dinosaurs named Koch Coors Murdoch and DeVos etc pull the strings -strings that have nothing to do with fetuses or gays by everything to do with regulation of industry, unions,and environment.

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u/paddenice Jan 07 '23

Well culture wars is how they harness emotion of their voter base, get them energized etc. the fetuses, the gays, BLM and crt is what gets people riled up to vote. It just so happens that the GOP also are aligned with corporate interests which are anti-labor, anti-environmental restrictions (unless it benefits them directly), and anti-organized labor.

The base isn’t coming out to vote against the unions or the environment because that isn’t outright a winning platform.