Again in Could 2023, co-blogger Kevin Corcoran posted on Randy Holcombe’s dialogue of how folks kind preferences on authorities insurance policies. Kevin quoted Randy as follows:
These are voters whose beliefs about free commerce had been merely a by-product choice, derived from their anchor choice of identification with the Republican celebration. When the Republican celebration advocated free commerce, so did they. And when the Republican celebration turned away from free commerce, so did they. In the identical method, after Trump’s rise to prominence within the Republican celebration, assist free of charge commerce amongst Democrats shot up dramatically, to considerably increased ranges than Republican assist free of charge commerce throughout the presidency of George W. Bush.
This quote is from Randall G. Holcombe, Following Their Leaders: Political Preferences and Public Coverage, Cambridge College Press, 2023. Kevin wrote:
These are voters whose beliefs about free commerce had been merely a by-product choice, derived from their anchor choice of identification with the Republican celebration. When the Republican celebration advocated free commerce, so did they. And when the Republican celebration turned away from free commerce, so did they. In the identical method, after Trump’s rise to prominence within the Republican celebration, assist free of charge commerce amongst Democrats shot up dramatically, to considerably increased ranges than Republican assist free of charge commerce throughout the presidency of George W. Bush.
I don’t disagree with this reasoning. I feel there’s lot to it. However I do wish to level out a counterexample. Again in 2021, Trump revealed to his supporters that he obtained a booster for the COVID-19 vaccine. A good variety of them booed. So that they didn’t alter their views primarily based on the man that a lot of them appeared to like.
In fact you possibly can argue that they’ll’t alter their views immediately. It’s fairly conceivable that a lot of them thought that Trump wouldn’t get a booster and thus, of their view, be “on their aspect.” So they may have booed out of shock. Nonetheless, a good variety of them needed to know that he had finished Operation Warp Pace to get the unique vaccine produced rapidly. If that they had adjusted their views of the vaccine to what they will need to have thought his view was, they’d have been in favor. However a good variety of members of the viewers, going by the amount, noticed him as being incorrect on this.