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California University Highlighted Anti-Trump Journal Article on Website

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The University of California-Santa Cruz, on its website, highlighted a published journal article by Professor Thomas Pettigrew, who blasted supporters of President Donald Trump as less-educated “male nativists”:

In a post on the UCSC Newscenter website, the university touts an article by Professor Thomas Pettigrew that was recently published the Journal of Social and Political Psychology, in which he asserts that “authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, prejudice, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact” are the five social-psychological factors that led voters to coalesce around the “male nativists and populists who were less educated than the general population” who he says made up the “core” of the “Trump movement.”

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