Posted on 05/18/2018 10:20:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Study: Voters Worried About Political Correctness Flocked to Candidate Trump
"Support for Trump (and opposition to Clinton) is especially likely amongst people who feel emotional reactance to restrictive communication norms."
Robby Soave | May. 18, 2018 9:15 am
In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, I suggested that Donald Trump's unlikely victory was partly the result of backlash against political correctness—something the Republican candidate deftly turned to his advantage during both the primaries and the general election.
A year and a half later, there's a good amount of evidence supporting this theory. Take this study, produced by a team of researchers at the University of Montana and Syracuse University, titled "Donald Trump as a Cultural Revolt Against Perceived Communication Restriction: Priming Political Correctness Norms Causes More Trump Support." According to its abstract:
In this framework, support for Donald Trump was in part the result of over-exposure to PC norms. Consistent with this, on a sample of largely politically moderate Americans taken during the General Election in the Fall of 2016, we show that temporarily priming PC norms significantly increased support for Donald Trump (but not Hillary Clinton). We further show that chronic emotional reactance towards restrictive communication norms positively predicted support for Trump (but not Clinton), and that this effect remains significant even when controlling for political ideology. In total, this work provides evidence that norms that are designed to increase the overall amount of positive communication can actually backfire by increasing support for a politician who uses extremely negative language that explicitly violates the norm.
These findings complement work done by the mathematician Spencer Greenberg, which showed that believing "there is too much political correctness in this country" was the second most reliable predictor of whether a person would vote for Trump (second only to being a Republican).
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Not worried. Disgusted.
Was going to post the same!
Another one of many things people were and are sick and tired of.
It is all adding up to a Blue Ripple in Nov.
So heightened awareness of PC speech restrictions is very helpful to Trump. I’m sure we can think of numerous ways and means to prompt many highly public outbreaks of outrageously PC speech restriction.
Libs are like Richard Gere with all of this stupid stuff;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=HiIZLDeMOg0
from Reason’s Robby Soave, who (on Reason’s website) is also a columnist for The Daily Beast and has penned articles for The New York Times, New York Post, CNN, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Orange County Register, and The Detroit News:
Grossmann’s piece cites the Montana/Syrcause study, among others, to argue that cultural issues mattered far more to Trump voters than economic issues. Raising the salience of cultural issues and political correctness—a strategy undertaken not just by the Trump campaign, but also inadvertently by the Clinton campaign, which thought smearing Trump supporters as racists and sexists would increase the pro-Clinton vote—helped Trump.
It’s difficult to parse how important this was, since many voters who picked Trump because he was anti-P.C. would have voted for him anyway. Conversely, voters who weren’t just anti-P.C. but outright racist may have picked Trump because they saw him as the more racist candidate...
That distinction matters, because the perception of Trump as racist actually hurt him among voters, according to Grossmann:
“His negative statements about minority groups were recognized by voters—but not positively. In open-ended responses, “racist” was the number one negative thing said about Trump even among Republicans...
“In paid advertising, it was the Clinton campaign that repeatedly raised these issues and endlessly replayed Trump’s statements”...
“Voters can simultaneously 1) dislike Trump’s bigotry 2) dislike Dems’ harping on it 3) perceive that Dems used to care about white working class, now only care about minorities 4) mistrust Republicans on class, but perceive Trump as different,” Grossmann explained on Twitter...
the Reason article is just a continuation of the FakeNewsMSM - not just Hillary’s campaign - calling Trump bigoted/racist, both before and after NYT’s Patrick Healey (with Amy Chozick) wrote the article reference here:
Wikileaks: Podesta emails: Re: Hi Angel and Tina — running stuff by you re Clinton/Trump story in tomorrow’s NYT
From:slatham@hillaryclinton.com
To: creynolds@hillaryclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com CC: jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com, jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com, bfallon@hillaryclinton.com, nmerrill@hillaryclinton.com, jferguson@hillaryclinton.com
Date: 2016-02-29 16:48
Subject: Re: Hi Angel and Tina — running stuff by you re Clinton/Trump story in tomorrow’s NYT
Hi Angel, hi Tina, Hope you’re both well. Amy Chozick and I are doing a story about how the Clinton campaign and its supporters view Trump as a general election opponent and plan to run against him. The story will run in tomorrow’s paper...
President Clinton, like others, thinks that Trump has his finger on the pulse of the electorate’s mood and that only a well-financed, concerted campaign portrayed him as dangerous and bigoted will win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election...
He, Mrs. Clinton, and the campaign all agree that they will need to seize on opportunities to paint Trump as extremist and recklessly impulsive...
Happy to talk this over by email or phone before 6pm today. Thanks, Patrick
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/59194
has Bill Clinton ever complained about NYT’s claims? don’t think so. however, was it more NYT’s own recommendation on how to frame the campaign?
29 February 2016: NYT: Inside the Clinton Team’s Plan to Defeat Donald Trump
By Amy Chozick and Patrick Healy
They were confident that his incendiary remarks about immigrants, women and Muslims would make him unacceptable to many Americans. They had faith that the growing electoral power of black, Hispanic and female voters would deliver a Clinton landslide if he were the Republican nominee.
But others, including former President Bill Clinton, dismissed those conclusions as denial. They said that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood and that only a concerted campaign portraying him as dangerous and bigoted would win what both Clintons believe will be a close November election.
That strategy is beginning to take shape, with groups that support Mrs. Clinton preparing to script and test ads that would portray Mr. Trump as a misogynist and an enemy to the working class whose brash temper would put the nation and the world in grave danger
‘Against Bigotry’
The greatest weapon against Mr. Trump, the Clintons believe, is his tendency to make outrageous, even hateful comments that can come across as unpresidential...
In South Carolina and Tennessee, Mrs. Clinton began to lay the groundwork for what advisers call “a campaign against bigotry,” in which she will present herself as the fair-minded foil to Mr. Trump...
During the Republican debate on Thursday, the Clinton campaign posted an image on Instagram that said, “These are not American values: Racism, sexism, bigotry, discrimination, inequality.”
Mr. Trump emphatically denies being bigoted, saying he is simply not “politically correct.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-general-election.html
MSM ramped it up following the NYT piece:
1 March 2016: The Daily Beast: NASCAR Sponsor: Donald Trump Too Racist to Endorse
by Asawin Suebsaeng
1 March 2016: Time: Trump’s Views Are More Dangerous Than the KKK
By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
1 March 2016: WaPo: Donald Trump and David Duke: For the record
2 March 2016: NPR: Journalists Struggle To Describe Trump’s Racially Charged Rhetoric
by David Folkenflik
Last year, The Huffington Post assigned stories on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the entertainment section, seeing him as a buffoonish diversion.
It now appears to view Trump as a threat, attaching an editor’s note to the end of every article about him to inform readers he “is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully.”...
3 March 2016: HuffPo: Growing Number Of GOP Politicians Refuse To Back Donald Trump In The General Election
By Amanda Terkel
Editor’s Note: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/gop-donald-trump_us_56d71f25e4b03260bf78dbf2
3 March 2016: Star Tribune: Norm Coleman: I will never vote for Donald Trump
He’s a bigot, a misogynist, a fraud and a bully.
by Norm Coleman
4 March 2016: Cosmopolitan: Donald Trump Gives White Men Permission to Be Sexist and Racist
Republicans have communicated bigotry and intolerance for years. Trump simply uses a bullhorn
By Jill Filipovic
5 March 2016: CNN: Louis C.K.: ‘Insane bigot’ Donald Trump ‘is Hitler’
By Gregory Krieg
10 March 2016: ABC: The White Nationalists Who Support Donald Trump
By Candace Smith
and much more. how Trump beat Hillary/MSM/FBI/CIA/RINOS & the rest of the Deep State is the most amazing story of this Century.
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It’s no secret - we’ve been telling them all this for years now. The surprise on the part of the media is that it might actually amount to something more than easily-handled disgruntlement, the sort of thing a stupid mule might offer when he’s being prodded down the Path Of Enlightenment. It isn’t like that. And only now that Political Correctness is being turned on its formerly enthusiastic employers is the realization creeping in.
A sentiment also shared by GOPE. Especially about illegal immigration.
“...chronic emotional reactance towards restrictive communication norms...”
Chronic? We’re not diseased, just “deplorable”.
“...that norms that are designed to increase the overall amount of positive communication can actually backfire by increasing support for a politician who uses extremely negative language that explicitly violates the norm.”
The fact that a faceless blob is designing norms for us made me see red, and I voted accordingly.
Richard Gere has stood for things, and China has been brutal in return.
Don’t bash the guy.
I think this backlash was much more prominent in the primary election than the general.
After both McCain and Romney were both cowed by political correctness in to saying nothing derogatory against Obama the rank and file Republican voter was ready for a candidate the was willing to fight regardless of the opinion of the PC police.
The mass of Republican voters were not going to chose a candidate that wouldn’t fight. So that left Trump as the last man standing on a stage of what was it 14 candidates.
Not bashing him. I’m simply pointing out that with PC and the whore Stormy, they have no else to go.
This. And cameras at the ready, posted immediately and repeatedly to all social media, not just conservative echo chambers. Yes, they’ll take it down and yes they may even shadow ban you or ban you outright, but it’s just letters on a screen.
Hillary’s “campaign against bigotry” blew up in her face when she called half the country “deplorables” thereby proving that _she_ was the bigot in the race.
>> [Trump’s] language that explicitly violates the norm
The final statement of the quoted abstract oddly omits the “PC” attribution to “norm.”
You can tell the author’s a lib. PC is NOT designed to increase the overall amount of “positive communication.” Quite the opposite.
It is intended to suppress communication by dividing the public into numerous weak and squabbling petty little groups... and keep them at each other’s throats over imaginary offenses instead of organizing against the real offenses of the monstrous and intrusive growth of centralized government.
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