Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally showed how racism is the beating heart of election denial

If a Trump voter in 2020 does not personally know even a single Biden voter, that voter might understandably wonder how Biden could have won the election. Preliminary survey research suggests that the likelihood that a Trump voter becomes an election denier depends not just on the intensity of his or her own beliefs—but also on how large a share of

For people on the right, it’s sparked by horror at changing demographics and gender roles

The change began in 2014. That was the year when the views of some Americans—white Democrats and people with college degrees—took a sharp turn to the left on identity issues. Is bias the main cause of racial inequality? Do slavery and past discrimination still hold Black people back today? Do immigrants strengthen the country because of their hard

This potent mix of grievance and religious fervor has turbocharged the support among a wide swath of Trump loyalists, many of whom describe themselves as participants in a kind of holy war, according to interviews. And many, who are swimming in falsehoods about the presidential election and now the riot itself, said the aftermath of Wednesday’s eve