"In other words, what might look on the surface like bigotry was really much closer to Stenner's theory of "activation": that authoritarians are unusually susceptible to messages about the ways outsiders and social changes threaten America, and so lash out at groups that are identified as objects of concern at that given moment."

It's an interesting piece that I can't not read thinking about the AfD success in Germany but dear Vox: The reading is really spoiled by your weird clickbait style reading triggers. Strange style decision.