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The Resentment That Never Sleeps

Posted on AllSides December 9th, 2020
From The Left
Political Polarization, cultural polarization, polarization
OPINION

Rising anxiety over declining social status tells us a lot about how we got here and where we’re going.

More and more, politics determine which groups are favored and which are denigrated.

Roughly speaking, Trump and the Republican Party have fought to enhance the status of white Christians and white people without college degrees: the white working and middle class. Biden and the Democrats have fought to elevate the standing of previously marginalized groups: women, minorities, the L.G.B.T.Q. community and others.

The ferocity of this politicized status competition can be...

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/opinion/trump-social-status-resentment.html

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