Negative emotions like anger, anxiety, and depression significantly predicted support for populist candidates, including Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. elections, highlighting the powerful influence of emotional distress on voting behavior.
After the 2016 election there was a panel discussion with all the creators of TV’s biggest political dramas; House of Cards, Scandal, Veep, The West Wing et al.
All the producers said the same thing. If they’d had a fictional character say that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the networks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be hated on by all Americans.
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After the 2016 election there was a panel discussion with all the creators of TV’s biggest political dramas; House of Cards, Scandal, Veep, The West Wing et al.
All the producers said the same thing. If they’d had a fictional character say that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the networks and advertisers would have demanded that the character be hated on by all Americans.