The results do not contest the incendiary nature of Trump's rhetoric and actions. But they indicate that many Americans have moved in the reverse direction.
President Trump fields questions from reporters in August 2017 about his comments on the events in Charlottesville, Va. A new study questions whether rising incidents of hate crimes in the first two years of Trump's presidency are the product of rising levels of prejudice throughout the white population or the radicalization of a small subgroup. By Isaac Stanley-Becker Isaac Stanley-Becker Reporter based in the U.K.
In other words, Hopkins believes the study provides evidence that the racially incendiary rhetoric and policies issuing from Trump’s White House have pushed the majority of Americans in the opposite direction. Most think the president is motivating his racist supporters to declare their bigoted views. A Quinnipiac University poll last summer found that 55 percent of voters believed that Trump was emboldening people who hold racist beliefs to state them outright.
The data was drawn from a nationally representative sample of about 20,000 people, interviewed five times between 2007 and 2008. Subsets of the sample submitted to eight further interviews, most recently in November 2018. Anti-Hispanic prejudice showed a similar decline between Trump’s election and the fall of 2018, but the shift in this case was driven by people who identified as Democrats. There was a small increase in professed anti-Hispanic sentiment among Republicans between 2012 and 2018.
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