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...I’m no longer capable of being curious or compassionate for all the experiences that make this man who he is: a human (like me) desperately trying to belong and survive, who (like me) is socialized by complex forces outside of his awareness and control, and who (like me) may feel fear, grief, powerlessness or shame hiding under his armor of anger.
Instead I slip into a false refuge of certainty. I know this guy — he’s a fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobe.

She acknowledges her "false refuge of certainty, and that the man is a fellow human.

But implied is that "fear, grief, powerlessness and shame" is what drove this man into the Trumpian embrace, and stated without question is that the MAGA hat is "an armor of anger."

"What builds teams is a feeling of safety." How safe do any academic peers or students in another political camp feel around our author? Or does the question never arise?

Liberals are lying with scientific studies to smear conservatives as irrationally angry and afraid. That lets them oppress conservatives as crazy and irrational. It is a hateful stereotype based on bad science. And it is institutional bigotry, because a liberal group that proved this negative stereotype of conservatives wasn’t true had the paper rejected.

We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn’t actually true.
https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/science-replication-conservatives-liberals-reacting-to-threats.html

That is aside from the massive politicization of the social sciences.

Self-censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science
Amid heightened tensions on college campuses, well-established scientific ideas are suddenly meeting with stiff political resistance.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/self-censorship-campus-bad-science/589969/

Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Running Out of Excuses
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/psychologys-replication-crisis-real/576223/

Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/1/liberal-majority-on-campus-yes-were-biased/

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html