White anxiety, and a president ready to address it
White anxiety, and a president ready to address it
- July 20, 2019
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, in The New York Times, July 20, 2019
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“It really takes a Trump to ignite it,” said Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. “These beliefs that whites are discriminated against, that undeserving minorities are getting more than they deserve, and hard-working whites are getting less than they deserve — those are always there. … “Much of the research on the role of emotions in politics points to anger as a particularly effective emotion in getting people off the sidelines and onto the political playing field,” said Davin Phoenix, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UCI Libraries. Sign-up here: AccessNYT.com]
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/upshot/white-anxiety-trump.html.
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