3 Feb 2020 10:59 am
Except that a study cited recently shows that Trump supporters are better educated, more politically aware and smarter than Hillary supporters.
. It is obvious the exact opposite is true even Trump knew that he BRAGGED how he loved the poorly educated
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
New research reports Trump voters were more likely to perform poorly on a test of intellectual ability.
During the 2016 election, Donald Trump famously proclaimed "I love the poorly educated!" Well, if "poorly educated" is a euphemism for "cognitively challenged," new research finds they loved him right back.
It reports Trump voters, on average, performed more poorly than Hillary Clinton supporters on a standard test widely regarded as a good indicator of intellectual ability.
In contrast, they found "weak, nonsignificant relationships of verbal ability and education with attitude toward [Mitt] Romney" in his failed 2012 campaign. In both elections, higher levels of education and verbal ability were associated with support for the Democratic candidate [Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton].
"Support for Trump was better predicted by lower verbal ability than education or income," the researchers add. "Our analyses indicate that support for Trump was less about socioeconomic standing, and more about intellect."
Psychology today shows Trump voters seem to be motivated by entitlement prejudice and love of FASCISM or authoritairan personality syndrome and Social Dominance orientation
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201712/analysis-trump-supporters-has-identified-5-key-traits
In a recent review paperpublished in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Psychologist and UC Santa Cruz professor Thomas Pettigrew argues that five major psychological phenomena can help explain this exceptional political event.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
1. Authoritarian Personality Syndrome
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
Authoritarianism refers to the advocacy or enforcement of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom, and is commonly associated with a lack of concern for the opinions or needs of others. Authoritarian personality syndrome—a well-studied and globally-prevalent condition—is a state of mind that is characterized by belief in total and complete obedience to one’s authority. Those with the syndrome often display aggression toward outgroup members, submissiveness to authority, resistance to new experiences, and a rigid hierarchical view of society. The syndrome is often triggered by fear, making it easy for leaders who exaggerate threat or fear monger to gain their allegiance.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
Although authoritarian personality is found among liberals, it is more common among the right-wingaround the world. President Trump’s speeches, which are laced with absolutist terms like “losers” and “complete disasters,” are naturally appealing to those with the syndrome.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
While research showed that Republican voters in the U.S. scored higher than Democrats on measures of authoritarianism before Trump emerged on the political scene, a 2016 Politico survey found that high authoritarians greatly favored then-candidate Trump, which led to a correct prediction that he would win the election, despite the polls saying otherwise.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
2. Social dominance orientation
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
Social dominance orientation (SDO)—which is distinct but related to authoritarian personality syndrome—refers to people who have a preference for the societal hierarchy of groups, specifically with a structure in which the high-status groups have dominance over the low-status ones. Those with SDO are typically dominant, tough-minded, and driven by self-interest.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
In Trump’s speeches, he appeals to those with SDO by repeatedly making a clear distinction between groups that have a generally higher status in society (White), and those groups that are typically thought of as belonging to a lower status (immigrants and minorities).
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
A 2016 survey study of 406 American adults published this year in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found that those who scored high on both SDO and authoritarianism were those who intended to vote for Trump in the election.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
3. Prejudice
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
It would be grossly unfair and inaccurate to say that every one of Trump’s supporters have prejudice against ethnic and religious minorities, but it would be equally inaccurate to say that many do not. It is a well-known fact that the Republican party, going at least as far back to Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy,” used strategies that appealed to bigotry, such as lacing speeches with “dog whistles”—code words that signaled prejudice toward minorities that were designed to be heard by racists but no one else.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
While the dog whistles of the past were more subtle, Trump’s are sometimes shockingly direct. There’s no denying that he routinely appeals to bigoted supporters when he calls Muslims “dangerous” and Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “murderers,” often in a blanketed fashion. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a new study has shown that support for Trump is correlated with a standard scale of modern racism.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
4. Intergroup contact
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
Intergroup contact refers to contact with members of groups that are outside one’s own, which has been experimentally shown to reduce prejudice. As such, it’s important to note that there is growing evidence that Trump’s white supporters have experienced significantly less contact with minorities than other Americans. For example, a 2016 study found that “…the racial and ethnic isolation of Whites at the zip-code level is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.” This correlation persisted while controlling for dozens of other variables. In agreement with this finding, the same researchers found that support for Trump increased with the voters’ physical distance from the Mexican border.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
5. Relative deprivation
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
Relative deprivation refers to the experience of being deprived of something to which one believes they are entitled. It is the discontent felt when one compares their position in life to others who they feel are equal or inferior but have unfairly had more success than them.
https://psmag.com/news/trumps-appeal-to-the-cognitively-challenged
And we know a massive abuse of power when it's right in front of our eyes.
You are a LIAR you just keep telling LIES about what you call an abuse of power while excusing Donald Trump for BLATANT abuses of power. Clearly the Senate Republicans either didnt recognize an abuse of power or like Alexandersaid that yeah Trump abused his power they JUST DONT CARE
You PATHETIC Treason Monkeys KNOW as well as all the rest of us that if it had been OBAMA who did these things you would be DEMANDING impeachment You are a LIAR and a TRAITOR