By Selwyn Duke

“SPREADING HATE: New study shows Trump presidency normalized hatred and bigotry in MAGA followers.” So reads an April 11 headline at the website Occupy Democrats. What the researchers themselves say is a bit different, however, though still seemingly damning. “We found that explicit racial and religious prejudice significantly increased among Trump’s supporters,” they write, “whereas individuals opposed to Trump exhibited decreases in prejudice.”

Yet those reading the actual study may conclude that this isn’t what the researchers, two psychologists, “found,” only what they claimed — and that they may be prejudiced themselves.

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