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•58% Informative
Donald Trump likely to become the Republican nominee in this year ’s U.S. presidential election.
Julian Zelizer : Leftists have spent the last nine years dunking on Donald Trumps supporters instead of seeking to understand them.
Zelizer says conservatives tend to embrace, to some extent, all six foundations of moral reasoning.
Frida Ghitis : In an increasingly tribalized social media environment, those who express sympathy for the views of opposing groups may experience backlash from their own cohort.
Ghitis says it’s much safer to assume that the thinking of Trump supporters emerges from bigotries that defy logical analysis.
She says some people subconsciously project their own bad qualities “onto some designated other” and this other person, via the defense of projection, is seen as the repository of all that is bad and evil and necessary to destroy.
David Gergen : 61 percent of Democrats say they see Republicans as racist/bigoted/sexist, but this doesn't map well onto the average Trump supporter.
Gergen says that even when those views are expressed, they’re rarely acting from a place of hatred.
He says that learning about your opponents can make you more effective in crafting arguments that appeal to them.
VR Score
65
Informative language
63
Neutral language
51
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
55
Offensive language
offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
detected
Time-value
short-lived
External references
24
Source diversity
19