“Racial resentment, anti-Muslim attitudes, and white identity were all much stronger predictors of support for Trump in the 2016 primaries than they were for prior Republican nominees,” wrote Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California at Irvine. “Racially resentful whites without a college degree were most likely to flee the Democratic Party during Obama’s presidency.”

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