Read a newspaper, watch the news networks. Scroll twitter. There’s no claim. They will tell you themselves
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I seek a test that could be more clearly shown to those inclined to deny the claim.
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It's impressive that the need for narrative and identity so strongly pervades the current zeitgeist that an ostensibly economically-focused rag will publish a piece that presents nothing more than a narrative frame. It doesn't make any concrete claims. What is there to test?
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We social scientists frequently come up with concrete ways to test broad narrative frames.
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Commendable but that's a Sisyphean task. The narrative form is useful mostly because its definitions are always amorphous. Surely you can translate some part of this into a testable claim, but if the result is undesired, it will declare that it's not really what was meant
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Ordinary Americans dislike Trump. Therefore they can not be motivated by dislike of their own style. QED
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First you have to define “ordinary Americans”. Good luck with that.
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Get a sample of those who say they strongly disapprove of Trump (43% of likely voters) and ask how they feel about popular or typical things
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OkCupid could be a decent place to start. IIRC questions such as "Trump?" were quite commonly answered, along with plenty of more general ones regarding political leaning.
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Or a test for the inverse: that Trump supporters tend to embrace narratives that the rest of America feels superior to them. In the small town I’m from that’s been a common tribe-bonding topic of conversation for decades.
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Even within the community accusations of superiority are commonly flung, as are sarcastic responses like, “Oh, I’m just an uneducated ______, so what do I know.”
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There is a small college in town. Social interactions between professors or students and the townsfolk are interesting. The latter often view the former with suspicion, even in the most ordinary of interactions.
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And the vast majority of the professors are politically conservative, btw.
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The more I think about it the more it strikes me how pervasive the status games were/are, but an inverse status game: folks with inferiority complexes competing to embrace lowest-rung-of-the-latter status. Trump plays to this perfectly.
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Make them watch a few episodes of Married... with Children.
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The General Social Survey lets you compare political affiliation and various aspects of culture/style. Unfortunately time-use surveys don't ask about politics. The claim isn't very well-defined though ... at least a plurality of Americans disapprove of Trump, so who's ordinary?
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Survey traits people ascribe to themselves. Survey traits people ascribe to their neighbors. Survey traits people ascribe to most Americans. Using sets of these + random adj, ask self-identified Dem partisans which they consider to be positive & which negative.
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Some of us outside of America have this feeling of foreboding, if and when he runs off the rails its going to be a different.
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