![cult animosity shows no letting up cult animosity shows no letting up](http://yoninetanyahu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/WWYG-WHAT-WILL-U-GET-4.jpg)
Julie Wronski, a political scientist at the University of Mississippi - a co-author, with Mason and John Kane of N.Y.U., of a just published paper, “Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support” - put it this way in reply to my emailed query: The objectives of the Trump wing of the Republican Party stand out in other respects, especially in the strength of its hostility to key Democratic minority constituencies. Lacking these traditional credentials, Trump sought out “the underserved market within the Republican electorate by giving those voters what they might have wanted, but weren’t getting from the other mainstream selections.”
![cult animosity shows no letting up cult animosity shows no letting up](http://yoninetanyahu.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/MISSION-VISION-STORY-AND-COMMUNICATION10.jpg)
When Trump got into the 2016 primary race, “he did not have a clear coalition, nor did he have the things candidates normally have when running for president: political experience, governing experience, or a track record supporting party issues and ideologies,” Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami, wrote in an email. Trump’s success in transforming the party has radically changed the path to the Republican presidential nomination: the traditional elitist route through state and national party leaders, the Washington lobbying and interest group community and top fund-raisers across the country no longer ensures success, and may, instead, prove a liability.įor those seeking to emulate Trump - Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, for example - the basic question is whether Trump’s trajectory is replicable or whether there are unexplored avenues to victory at the 2024 Republican National Convention.