A new study finds a correlation between U.S. citizen’s racial and cultural intolerance, and support for authoritarian rule. The data shows that when intolerant U.S. citizens fear that democracy may benefit marginalized people groups, they abandon their commitment to democracy.
The growing concentration of racially and culturally intolerant voters in the Republican Party has created a party whose workings appear less and less committed to a democratic society.
When faced with a choice between bigotry and democracy, too many U.S. citizens are embracing the first while abandoning the second.
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