Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Legal storm clouds gather over Donald Trump’s future

"The majority of the evidence that we have on hand says that people who like Trump don't care what he does – it just doesn't matter if he breaks the law," said Francisco I Pedraza, a political scientist at University of California Riverside. For those voters, "he can do no wrong".

"We know from a lot of social science research that people who back Trump also register very high on validated and reliable indexes of racial resentment, for example, he serves that and offers a kind of politics that responds to that flavor of politics," Pedraza said. "Anything else doesn't matter as long as he continues to be a champion for racist [sentiments]."…https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/trump-legal-threat-investigations-courts



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