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Many white nationalists and race realists believe that white people are genetically predisposed to self-destruction.

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The three political lies: 1.From Hobbes, government is not about the common good or providing basic needs. It is about preserving property. 2.From Hobbes and Locke, economics is a moral-free math. Humanity’s equality need not translate to economic equity. 3.From Smith, justice is retributive—it is about punishing rule-breakers—not about making righ

one study, Democrats were asked how many Republicans earn $250,000 a year or more, and answered 38 percent. It’s actually 2 percent. Republicans were asked what proportion of Democrats believe “most police are bad people” and answered 50 percent. It’s actually 15 percent.

this group because of this remarkable phenomenon). As a matter of fact, there may not be a single factor more influential in determining these subgroups, despite the fact that our algorithm was completely blind to ethnicity and race.

If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America’s newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham’s count (as we saw in C

the majority (55%) also felt that “moving a conservative agenda was worth any price of supporting Trump.” Surprisingly, 57 percent of this non-white group agreed that the January 6 riot at the US Capitol was “an effort by patriots to protect and restore our Christian nation.” Furthermore, 52 percent agreed that “the US military should support Vladi