Over 40 percent of Trump supporters rated Muslims as extremely violent in 2016.

Evidence

Trump and his Islamophobic advisers fanned the flames of fear and hate of Muslims. At every opportunity during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump validated Americans’ suspicions of Muslims as disloyal, anti-­American, and violent. His strategy was wildly successful, as more than 40 percent of his supporters believed that the word violent describes Muslims “extremely well,” as compared to 10 percent of Democrats and 30 percent of Republicans. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 861

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: By late 2015 a majority of Trump supporters believed Obama was Muslim — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 49