3 THE GOP BATTLE AGAINST MULTICULTURALISM
1. “Here’s Donald Trump’s Presidential Announcement Speech,” Time, June 16, 2015, http://
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. This national web survey of 800 likely Republican voters was conducted by Democracy Corps & Greenberg Quinlan Rosner on February 11–16, 2016, using a voter file sample. Likely voters were determined based on whether they voted in 2012 or had registered since and stated intention of voting in 2016. Data is among those who identify as Republicans or independents who lean Republican and vote in Republican primaries or caucuses. Margin of error for the full sample is +/-3.47 percentage points at 95 percent confidence. The five categories of Republicans are mutually exclusive categories determined by respondents’ responses on ideology, religion, frequency of service attendance, strength of Tea Party support, and favorability toward the Tea Party. To ensure that the web survey accurately reflects the national Republican Party, the typologies were weighted to the average for each type from Democracy Corps’s last three national surveys.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Moderates (31 percent) consist of: (a) liberals/moderates who are neither observant Catholics, nor Tea Party supporters, nor very favorable toward the Tea Party, (b) conservatives who are neither Evangelical Republicans nor observant Catholics and do not attend religious services more than once a week who are neither Tea Party supporters nor strongly favorable toward the Tea Party. Evangelicals (30 percent) consist of Evangelical Christians who are not moderates (see above). Tea Party (17 percent) consist of strong Tea Party supporters or those very favorable toward the Tea Party who are: (a) not moderates or Evangelicals (see above); (b) liberals/moderates who are not Evangelicals and are very favorable toward the Tea Party or somewhat strong Tea Party supporters. Observant Catholics (14 percent) consist of observant Catholics or Catholics who attend services more than once a week who are not moderate, Evangelical, or Tea Party (see above). Establishment (8 percent) consists of those who are not moderate, Evangelical, Tea Party, or observant Catholic (see above).
15. Democracy Corps survey of 800 likely Republican voters, February 2016.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Drew Magary, “What the Duck?,” GQ, January 2014, https://
19. TMZ, “Phil Robertson Publicly Bashed Gays for Years, A&E Knew All About It,” December 19, 2013, http://
20. Politico, “Full Text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC Draft Speech Transcript,” July 21, 2016, https://
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Brett LoGiurato, “The Most Vicious Ad of the 2012 Campaign Blames Mitt Romney for the Death of a Steel Worker’s Wife,” Business Insider, August 7, 2012, https://
30. Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), Kindle location 5747–5756.
31. Ibid.
32. Jim Abrams, “Obama Signs 3 Trade Deals, Biggest Since NAFTA,” NBC News, October 21, 2011, http://
33. Mutz, “Status Threat,” figure 1, p. 5.
34. Rosa DeLauro, The Least Among Us: Waging the Battle for the Vulnerable (New York: The New Press, 2017), Kindle location 3013.
35. Ibid.
36. Donald Trump speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 8, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?418209-1/donald-trump-makes-final-campaign-stop-grand-rapids-michigan&start=1343; Donald Trump speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 7, 2016, https://
37. Democracy Corps national survey on behalf of Public Citizen that took place October 21–24, 2016. Respondents who voted in the 2012 election or had registered since were selected from the national voter file. Likely voters were determined based on stated intention of voting the next month. Margin of error for the full sample is +/-3.27 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Of the 900 respondents, 65 percent were interviewed via cell phone to accurately sample the American electorate.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., with data added on this question from a Democracy Corps survey done on behalf of Public Citizen, October 2017.
40. Donald Trump speech in Franklin, Tennessee, October 3, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=B7Qy3k_WMbM.
41. Jenna Johnson, “Trump Calls for ‘Complete and Total Shutdown of Muslims Entering the United States,’” The Washington Post, December 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/12/07/donald-trump-calls-for-total-and-complete-shutdown-of-muslims-entering-the-united-states/?utm_term=.caf83d445190, accessed September 17, 2018.
42. John Sides, “Race, Religion and Immigration: How the Debate over American Identity Shaped the Election and What It Means for a Trump Presidency,” June 2017, https://
43. Democracy Corps National Web Survey of 800 2016 Trump Voters and GOP Base Voters. This web survey took place December 2–5, 2016, among eight hundred voters from 2016 who voted for Trump or non-Trump voters who identify as Republicans or independents who lean Republican and vote in Republican primaries or caucuses. Margin of error for the full sample is +/-3.47 percentage points at 95 percent confidence. Margin of error will be higher among subgroups.
44. Ibid.
45. Mutz, “Status Threat,” pp. 5–8.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid., figure 1, p. 5.
48. U.S. Census Bureau, “California 2000: Census 200 Profile,” August 2002, https://
49. Joel Kotkin, “The Golden State Won’t Glitter for Republicans,” City Journal, November 2, 2018, https://
50. Jane Coaston, “How California Conservatives Became the Intellectual Engine of Trumpism,” Vox.com, November 13, 2018, https://
51. Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts, Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
52. Ibid., Kindle locations 6369–6370.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Joshua Green, Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising (New York: Penguin Press, 2017); Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018).
58. Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, “Trump Warns Evangelicals of ‘Violence’ If GOP Loses in the Midterms,” CNN, August 28, 2018, https://
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60. Peter Rentfrow, John Jost, Samuel Gosling, and Jeffrey Potter, “Statewide Differences in Personality Predict Voting Patterns in 1996–2004 U.S. Presidential Elections” in John Jost, Aaron Kay, and Hulda Thorisdottir, eds., Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), Kindle locations 4570–77.
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62. Pew Research Center, “The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider,” October 5, 2017, http://
63. Amber Phillips, “Is Split-Ticket Voting Officially Dead?” The Washington Post, November 17, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/17/is-split-ticket-voting-officially-dead/?utm_term=.3a609616b88c, accessed September 12, 2018.
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65. Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 277.
66. Ibid., p. 268.
67. Ibid., p. 267.