Personal victimhood predicted Trump support across both left and right.

Evidence

Supporting the potential links between identity needs related to victimhood at both personal and social levels is the finding that perceived victimhood predicted support for Donald Trump in the 2020 US presidential election across the ideological spectrum (Armaly & Enders 2022). Specifically, the correlation between personal victimhood and support for Trump was positive for both right-wing and left-wing individuals (after Downloaded from www. — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations, 150

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does this finding on non-partisan victimhood predicting an election outcome help empirically bridge the personal-vs-social identity divide the author flags as hard to disentangle?
• CANDY: A striking, counterintuitive bite-sized finding: feeling personally victimized predicted voting for Trump even on the left.
• XREF: connects to: Trump’s conspiracism is self-generated to affirm a victimized and grandiose self-image — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 158; Support for digressive victimhood claims tracks outgroup prejudice. — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 102; Left identity-based proprietary victimhood can divide people as effectively as conspiracy theories — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 1081 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Trump’s conspiracism is self-generated to affirm a victimized and grandiose self-image #expands (0.78) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 158
• Support for digressive victimhood claims tracks outgroup prejudice. #qualifies (0.74) — Felix Danbold, Ivuoma N. Onyeador, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Dominant groups support digressive…, 102
• Perceived loss of white Christian status, not economics, drove Trump support #qualifies (0.73) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 603
• Left identity-based proprietary victimhood can divide people as effectively as conspiracy theories #expands (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1081
• Perceived racial demographic shift raises White group status threat that drives Trump support. #qualifies (0.72) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 5