Amid the Trump chaos, public opinion is remarkably stable. White evangelical support for Donald Trump at all-time high. White evangelicals are Trump’s base: Conservatives like to think of anti-Trump folk as living in a bubble — could it be that pro-Trump white Evangelicals are isolated from everyone else? White working-class voters may not care about Trump scandals. Trumpism doesn’t divide GOP voters — but conservatism does. Experiment proves that conservatives are little baby snowflakes who act the way they do because everything terrifies them. Turns out everyone loves “identity politics” — especially Republicans. Nancy LeTourneau on authoritarianism and the identity politics of the Republican Party.
Clay Risen on how the party of Lincoln became the party of racial backlash. If taxes aren’t working, will desperate Republicans keep turning to race-based attacks? Thuy Linh Tu and Nikhil Pal Singh on the deepening of morbid symptoms that have come to define America’s racial-capitalist order over the past several decades.
