Trump’s election sharply reduced religious framing of Muslims in US newspapers.

Evidence

Consistent with the second hypothesis, after President Trump was elected, there was a 70% reduction in the odds that newspaper discussions about Muslims and Islam would include religionspecific elements. — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 64

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A 70% collapse in religious framing after a single election points to elite cueing reshaping how a whole minority group is described in public discourse.
• SEED: Article angle: how one candidate’s rhetoric can strip the religious dimension out of media coverage of a faith group, and what that does to the group’s public identity.