Heavy viewing and authoritarianism taken together has a significant relationship with Trump preference

By Michael Morgan, Professor Emeritus of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst and James Shanahan, Dean of the Media School, Indiana University. Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining the surprise victory of Donald Trump. Reasons range from white working-class resentment, to FBI Director James Comey’s decision to reopen the…