We find that political beliefs of America First express and reflect economic frustrations, and that the social boundaries these narratives draw against perceived outsiders and internationalism are associated with lifetime criminal arrests.
Drawing on a national United States survey conducted around the 2016 election, we use multilevel models to show that the politically charged exclusionary boundaries of “America First” populism are behaviorally connected to increased odds of having been arrested. We argue that the rapid redrawing of social boundaries that make up populist attitudes is closely connected with the effects of economic and political frustrations during times of rapid social change.
Bad science typically confuses correlation with causation. In the brilliantly insightful study you cite, @TheKobeStopper, they can't or won't even say "correlation," and causation is out the window.
The study is basically saying poor and economically insecure people are more likely to have arrests in their history and that rapid change in social boundaries which include economic and political frustrations are related to populist or "me first" attitudes.
Gee, who'd have guessed, eh? Think this might be happening along the route of the Keystone Pipeline right now? I wonder.
PS - I realize you read the headline, not the article, and definitely not the actual study in a lame attempt to suggest that populism is bad and populists may get arrested more often than those who willingly subjugate themselves to the irrational or illegal whims of the state.
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Drawing on a national United States survey conducted around the 2016 election, we use multilevel models to show that the politically charged exclusionary boundaries of “America First” populism are behaviorally connected to increased odds of having been arrested. We argue that the rapid redrawing of social boundaries that make up populist attitudes is closely connected with the effects of economic and political frustrations during times of rapid social change.
Bad science typically confuses correlation with causation. In the brilliantly insightful study you cite, @TheKobeStopper, they can't or won't even say "correlation," and causation is out the window.
The study is basically saying poor and economically insecure people are more likely to have arrests in their history and that rapid change in social boundaries which include economic and political frustrations are related to populist or "me first" attitudes.
Gee, who'd have guessed, eh? Think this might be happening along the route of the Keystone Pipeline right now? I wonder.
PS - I realize you read the headline, not the article, and definitely not the actual study in a lame attempt to suggest that populism is bad and populists may get arrested more often than those who willingly subjugate themselves to the irrational or illegal whims of the state.