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Interesting comment here: "I have long suspected that cultural values had a stronger influence on voters than economic status, and DiMaggio's research confirms that. Who would really expect a NY real estate con man would improve your economic status?"

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Jan 25, 2022Liked by Andrew Van Wagner

Bit disappointed in DiMaggio's response to the 2020 Roots of Right-Wing Populism, it's quite a solid paper, that among other things shows how social and economic concerns play into each other, rather than being neatly cleaved apart. Hopefully he engages with it a little more in the book. Would be curious if you'd ask Ferguson to respond, if he's read the criticism.

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Jan 25, 2022Liked by Andrew Van Wagner

“There have been steadily increasing efforts over the last few decades to silence controversial and dissident voices in academia that might seek a public presence—we have so many examples where faculty engage in critical speech, the far right targets and harasses those faculty, and then university administrations don’t defend those faculty or fight back.”

What is the evidence behind this claim? Any examples I can look at? I’ve only ever seen leftist harassment of Professors like Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein and more.

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