Buchanan, Neil H, Robert C. Hockett, and On L. Dorf. "Trump's Snowflake Voters.

" Dorf on
Law. (2017): 2017-1. Print.

The article Trumps Snowflake Voters was written by Neil H. Buchanan, an author on the Dorf
on Law website, in January 2017. The website has many contributors that write about law,
politics, economics, and other topics. This particular article focuses on the 2016 election of
President Trump and his voters. In Trump's Snowflake Voters, the author claims that the
people who are considered snowflakes are the reason Trump won the election. The voters who
voted for Trump were not apart of a regional revolt as emphasized by scholars Konstantin
Kilibarda and Daria Roithmayr. They are people who vary in salary and wages and wanted to see
an outsider in the White House. The voters who voted for Obama in 2012 either voted for
Trump, voted for third parties, or didnt vote at all. Buchanan is trying to explain that not all of
Trumps voters are angry white people and that if liberal journalists would have tried to connect
with Trumps voters, then they would have understood what the voters were thinking and how
they initially felt. The author believes Trumps voters are hypocritical when it comes to how
they feel about the elites, but are okay with him putting them into power. He insists Trumps
voters are stubborn due to the fact that they will not admit that they made a mistake in voting
for Trump, and that the people who did not vote at all feel they were not responsible for Trump
becoming President. However, whether one voted or not, the author argues that people are not
snowflakes, and they can handle adult conversations in which they are challenged to rethink their
positions.

This article is very opinionated and biased. It contains points from both sides, as in Democrat or
Republican, but it has more of a liberal approach. The I believe the source is reliable because he
has several links to the information that he gathered within the text so the reader is able to see
where he is getting his information. He references other scholars in his article and uses their
points of view to either coincide with his or to argue against. The information used in this article
is recent and relevant because of the date and topic of which it is written. The author uses the
quote If only these journalists had "gotten out there" and interviewed Real Americans, rather
than holding them in contempt, they would have felt -- really felt -- the pain of these voters. This
story then holds that those angry voters naturally voted for Trump because he is the ultimate
outsider, and they felt in their guts that his solutions were just what is needed to reverse the pain
in their lives. Sticking it to those annoying elitists was an added bonus, to prove his thesis.

Other quotes: More to the point, those of us who oppose Trump are optimistic enough to
believe that a large number of his current supporters are not permanently in his camp. Yes,
Trump has undeniably brought some ugliness into the mainstream, not all of which will go away
anytime soon. But we need to believe that most people are inherently good.
Moreover, as I have pointed out again and again, it is also condescending to Trump's voters to
say that they hate elites but somehow they cannot bear to be told that Trump is conning them by
installing people in power who really look down on working people.

People can be stubborn, so we can depend on Trump's voters to deny that they made a mistake
in voting for Trump. Indeed, we can be sure that the non-voters who actually flipped the election
to Trump will be even more insistent that their acts of omission were not the reason for Trump's
rise.

I believe that the information in this article would be very helpful in writing a paper on the
beliefs of the voters during the 2016 election. Although I believe the article is reliable, I would
not use it in an academic paper because the article is so opinionated. I would, however, use it in
a paper that is argumentative, but not for informational purposes. The quotes I used above prove
how biased the article is, but are good points nonetheless. I enjoyed reading this article because I
agree with most of the authors ideas and points.

Jones, Clay. "Cartoon: Snowflake Safe Place." The Moderate Voice. N.p., 24 Dec. 2016. Web. 28
Mar. 2017.
This article was written by Clay Jones in December of 2016 for The Moderate Voice website.
The website was founded in 2003 by Joe Gandelman as a personal weblog that offers views from
an independent voters perspective on issues and the news. Although the website itself is not
affiliated with any party, the writers are allowed to voice their opinions about certain aspects of a
political candidate. In this article, the author believes that Republicans are being hypocritical
when using the insult snowflake. He emphasizes that the War on Christmas isnt real due to
the fact that Republicans feel threatened whenever someone wishes them well on the holidays
using anything other than Merry Christmas. Republicans whined about the outcome of the
election, even though Trump was victorious, due to the numbers of votes. The author goes on by
using former Congressman Allen B. West as an example by stating West lied and said that
Hillary Clinton won 57 out of 3,141 counties in the country. Republicans whining over details
about how their candidate won the election is only an example of what is to come and Jones calls
it replacing conservatism with Trumpism, which entails idol worship and image over policy. To
end the article, the author claims now when that disaster comes home for all of them well
see whos whining.

This article is particularly biased and is for liberal audiences. The author is known for his
political cartoons, but does not give any other information about himself. He also has over 100
other articles that hes written on this website. He did not reference outside sources and didnt
use any outside voices that would back up his opinion about why he feels the way he does about
Trump and the use of snowflake as an insult. The information in this article is recent because
of the date in which it was written; however, it is only relevant to the behavior surrounding and
after the election had taken place. The author states his opinion by claiming hell, they won the
election and theyre still whining about it. They really hate when its pointed out that Hillary
Clinton received more votes than Donald Trump. Even Donald Trump cant stop tweeting out
excuses about it.

Other quotes: Snowflake is kinda new for these people. Theyre using it to dismiss arguments
from young people who they feel are eternally offended and politically-correct protesters. It
implies that liberals are soft and whiny.

The whining over the details over their election win is probably a sign of things to come.
Conservatives got what they want except theyve replaced conservatism with Trumpism. No one
is really sure what Trumpism entails other than idol worship for a narcissist and image and
message over policy. Now when that disaster comes home for all of them well see whos
whining.

This article is a good read if youre a liberal or you cant stand Trump. I would not use this
article as a reference when writing an academic paper, but maybe for an argumentative piece.
The author seems smart and he knows what hes talking about and makes some very valid points
about his argument and beliefs. He has a solid stance on matters and thats something to look for
when searching for good authors.

Weeden, Jason, and Robert Kurzban. "Do People Naturally Cluster into Liberals and
Conservatives?" SpringerLink. Springer International Publishing, 12 Nov. 2015. Web. 04
Apr. 2017.
The article Do People Naturally Cluster into Liberals and Conservatives? was written by Jason
Weeden and Robert Kurzman for the journal, Evolutionary Psychological Science. The purpose
of this journal is to explore psychological aspects of evolution and behavior through an
international forum for theoretical papers that addresses evolved psychology in humans. The
authors of this article are trying to find the correlation between psychological tendencies and
political party affiliations. They use the General Orientations Model, the explanation in the
differences in political differences based on peoples liberal-conservative views, in contrast to
what they call the Domain Specific Model, the idea that people use their interests to take
positions affiliated with party coalitions with respect to diverse policies. The authors argue that
that views on issues derive from sexual and reproductive conflicts related to religion. By stating
the use of the terms liberal and conservative to describe disagreements over lifestyles, social
status regimes, economic issues, and so on encourages a kind of intuitive reification of
ideological categories, they are able to give more definition to their argument. Republican and
Democratic parties have contrasted views and have become even more divided due to racial
equality, family planning services, immigration, and the economy. To analyze the relationship
between liberal-conservative views amongst constituents, Kurzman and Weeden used the US
General Social Survey (GSS) from 1980-2014 to investigate public opinions about three
domains, economics, race, and religion. By using this, the authors are able to look at how the
domains have correlated over time and how they have related to the liberal-conservative labels.
They then recoded the variables, the people surveyed, to 3 being the most conservative, 0 being
the middle, and -3 being the most liberal. In conclusion, Kurzman and Weeden discovered that
people do not cluster into liberal and conservatives. They discovered that there was no
correlation between someones religion and their opinions on race and the economy, excluding
non-Hispanic whites with high levels of human capital (education/test performance). However,
over time, Americans have used the labels of conservative or liberal to summarize and combine
their opinions on issues. The authors go on by saying We have not attempted to solve the
puzzle this presents, why whites with high human capital have tended to bring their various
opinions into coalitional alignment while the bulk of the public has not. Why, for example, do
African Americans typically support Democrats without bringing their views on religious issues
into stronger liberal alignment or why do white churchgoers with less human capital typically
support Republicans without bringing their views on economic issues into stronger conservative
alignment? By asking these questions, there is more room for research into this topic and
research into how it relates to humans evolving psychologically.

This article is very informative about the effect psychology has on an individuals party
affiliation. They bring in several sources and voices to help with their research and
understanding. Due to this article being written by two professors, its a little hard to read and
understand what theyre explaining and why. The authors do end the article in a way that limits
room for more research into ideologies by saying It has been to show that the recent ideological
alignment among whites with high human capital is not, in fact, an appropriate foundation on
which to propose universal theories of human nature.

This piece would be very helpful when writing an informative paper about politics and how
people go either left or right. However, I would not recommend this to a friend due to the
difficulty in which it is written unless they could understand the purpose and the information
coming out of it. It is interesting to read how they conduct their research; although, it would
have been more helpful if they did more recent research instead of using an older survey and if
they did more research into upbringing and environments playing a part in party affiliation.

Sayre, Mike. "The Influence of News Media on Political Elites." American Journal of Political
Science. N.p., 24 Feb. 2015. Web. 06 Apr. 2017.

The article The Influence of News Media on Political Elites was written in February of 2015
and published in the American Journal of Political Science, a journal committed to researching
the advances in knowledge, government, politics, and political sciences. It is a summary of a
much larger article, The Influence of News Media on Political Elites: Investigating Strategic
Responsiveness in Congress written by Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson, Ren Lindstdt, and
Ryan J. Vander Wielen. In this brief summary, the author, Mike Sayre, is explaining the
importance of the media during campaigns. News media is the link between elected
representatives and the people who voted for them, who are the people they represent. However,
one must consider how much the media also affects the representative because after all,
politicians are consumers of news, too. With Fox News being introduced in the late 1990s, the
authors began a natural experiment to investigate the influence of news media on elected
representatives behavior. By 2002, Fox News was available nationwide, but some U.S. House
districts did not have the channel available in their line-up. Because of this, the authors were
able to compare voting behaviors between House districts that had Fox News to those who didnt
and also compared the voting behaviors of House districts before and after it was available. By
focusing on House Representatives, they were able to see what issues would be influenced the
most by the media in which Democrats and Republicans vote on. After the experiment, it was
concluded that the exposure to Fox News did influence the voting behavior of representatives,
but not in uniform fashion. In the months approaching the election, Fox News caused
Republican members to side more with their own party and Democratic members less likely to
side with their party. However, it was found that there was no evidence in differences of voting
behaviors during the early months of the election cycle concluding that members respond to
news media when voters are paying attention. The influence of Fox News grew larger when
districts became more Republican in which made political elites start depending greatly upon the
member's electoral surroundings. At the end of the experiment, the authors found that the
elected representatives do respond to the media, but they do it in a constrained manner.

This article is very informative on the effect Fox News has on elected officials during an
election. Due to the fact that this article is a summary, it was easier and more effective for me to
read. However, I feel as though the author could have gone more into detail about the
experiments that were conducted by the original authors. There is no information about Mike
Sayre, the author of the summary, but the authors of the original article are all professors at
universities and have written numerous other research pieces contributing to the journal. I would
highly recommend this article to someone who is looking for the effects of news media on
representatives.

This article will be very helpful when writing my inquiry thesis. Its very easy to relate to my
other sources and is not biased in any way. I enjoyed reading this because I have always
wondered if Fox News influences representatives the way it does voters at home. The effect
news media has on people and the effect it has on policies has always amazed me, but they
always say news travels fast.
"Pileup of Ethical Issues Gives Democrats Powerful Weapons Against Trump." CQ Magazine.
SAGE Publishing, 03 Apr. 2017. Web. 06 Apr. 2017.

The article Pileup of Ethical Issues Gives Democrats Powerful Weapons Against Trump was
the cover story written for CQ Magazine on April 3, 2017. The article is about the many
headlines Trump has made during his campaign and his almost three months in office. During
this time he has mustered up 30,000 complaints from the public made to the federal ethics office.
The rise of complaints gives evidence to an administration that will be full of scandals and
drama. It has given Democrats in office motivation to try and weaken the presidents power and
his administrations agenda with policies. The Trump administration has given into the
Democratic message with missteps and bad headlines that seem to be made every week. The
author explains President Trump, for example, maintains ownership of the Trump Organization
and its holdings that range from a swanky new hotel just blocks from the White House to golf
courses and properties in far-flung countries including Azerbaijan, Scotland and Turkey. His
oldest sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, operate the company now, but are hardly viewed as independent
from their father. He also argues the presidents oldest daughter, Ivanka, became an unpaid
White House employee in late March. Her father initially denied reports back in November that
she would gain security clearance and set up in the West Wing. Her husband, Jared Kushner,
serves as one of the presidents most senior advisers. From Trumps cabinet choices, Kellyanne
Conway creating alternative facts, alleging Obama wiretapped Trumps phones during the
campaign, and being investigated for Russian hacking and aiding the election have taken a toll
on his overall approval rating which is now at 35 percent. Due to this, Democrats have
intensified their focus on Trumps scandals picking and choosing which battles they need to
make important. Representative Ms. Maxine Waters of California has already made her goals
known by tweeting Get ready for impeachment. By acting prematurely, the public might
become numb to bigger issues that could come up in the upcoming months or years. Issues like
Trumps business winning a trademark deal in China possibly affecting foreign policy or his
organizations lease on the Old Post Office Building. More issues arise when Trump refuses to
release his tax statements, leaving the public in the dark about foreign business leaving him to be
the first major party presidential nominee in 40 years to do so. Although the Senate and House
are not controlled by the Democratic party, meaning they cant schedule hearings, representative
Jerrold Nadler has come up with a way to make Republicans vote on the ethical matters. The
resolution of inquiry is a tactic to force Republicans to vote either to support the resolution of
inquiry or to continue a cover-up, Nadler said during an interview in his congressional office.
According to Sayre, Trumps scandals have weakened him and his influence on his policy
agenda; however, the author goes on by arguing Trumps loyal core supporters arent likely to
turn on him, especially over ethics violations. The attacks may win him sympathy. Theyre not
rattled by his business ties they hired him to run the nation in large part because of his
billionaire mogul image. But if the consistently negative headlines weaken the White House and
stymie the presidents agenda, even Trumps base may lose heart.

This article was very informative on the stance of the representatives, both Democratic and
Republican. I would use this information in my Inquiry Thesis to point out that no matter how
unethical Trump may seem, members of his own party wont turn on him just to keep control of
the House/Senate. Although I have never heard of CQ Magazine, I will look into reading more
articles for more information. Its relevant, recent, and its important to stay updated with
everything going on in Washington.
Hallowell, Billy. "Campus Chaos Rages." Fault Line. Lake Mary, FL: FrontLine, 2017. 79-85.
Print.

In the novel Fault Line by Billy Hallowell, the senior editor for Faithwire and a former editor for
The Blaze, chapter 10 focuses on the rage across campuses due to the results of the 2016
election. He states that a lack of conservative ideals amongst professors is an area of concern,
but also things called buzzwords, which are trigger warnings, microaggressions, and safe
spaces. Trigger warnings are used to alert students of sensitive material they are about to read,
discuss, or watch that could cause distress. Hallowell states the idea, according to some, is that
certain students might respond better to course content or messages that deal with with
controversial subject matter if they are warned and prepared for it beforehand. This subject
matter might include disturbing elements such as rape or violence-themes that might be
embedded in poems and books. However, many critics have cautioned trigger warnings stifle
free speech because they may make the student feel vulnerable. Safe spaces, the author explains,
are contentious in that one side sees them as designated areas that allow for respectful
discussion and debate, while other believe they are locations at which free speech is curtailed.
Microaggressions are verbal, nonverbal snubs or insults that are communicated in a hostile,
derogatory manner targeting persons based upon their group. Some campuses have gone through
great lengths to keep their students safe from these buzzwords, while others have exemplified
free speech. Reactions to the 2016 election took the definition of a sensitive snowflake to new
levels. Events were planned to help students cope with the results putting emotions over logic,
calmness, and restraint. Hallowell believes that some of the methods, such as offering adults
Play-Doh and bubbles, are utterly bizarre. The author quotes the Washington Posts Catherine
Rampell saying Todays students are indeed both more left wing and more openly hostile to free
speech than earlier generations of collegians. In 2015, the Higher Education Research Institute
surveyed first-year students and found that 71 percent of freshmen believe colleges should
prohibit racist and sexist speech on campus. He quotes Rampell again saying that she suggests
colleges themselves are not wholly responsible for rising liberal and illiberal tendencies on
campus-even if they do sometimes aid and abet both trends. This means that there is a shift in
the culture that is creating these ideals before the students even set foot on college campuses.

This particular chapter is very informative on the different views of how college campuses are
reacting towards the election and hateful speech riled up from the events happening around the
country. I would highly recommend this novel to anyone looking for something that has
different viewpoints about these issues taking over campuses. Its very easy to understand and
relevant because of the date it was published which was March 7, 2017. This novel will be very
helpful when writing my inquiry thesis because it correlates with my topic very well. I look
forward to reading the whole book to get a better understanding for different viewpoints.

Hallowell, Billy. "Is Free Speech Under Attack?" Fault Line. Lake Mary, FL: FrontLine, 2017.
135-144. Print.

Billy Hallowell, author of the Fault Line, is the senior editor of Faithwire and a former editor of
The Blaze. In chapter 16 of the Fault Line, Hallowell is trying to determine if free speech is
under attack by political correctness that attacks others who share different ideologies. He
argues that there is a freedom for me and none for thee mentality that has come to dominate.
People have become consumed with their own beliefs and opinions that they reject opposing
ideas. They are willing to fight for their own causes while demeaning and silencing others who
do not agree with them causing many to be afraid of offending others by not sharing personal
commentary. The author explains this has all been perpetuated by the fact that there has been a
vicious turn of events in recent years-one that has given birth to concerted efforts to shame and
destroy reputations, businesses, and the like. Hallowell claims this puts free speech and
expression at risk. In the chapter, the author interviews Eugene Volokh, a professor at the UCLA
School of Law, asking what he thought was happening to free speech in America, in which
Volokh replied I think there are more attempts to censor speech that is seen as, say, religiously
bigoted or racist or sexist or anti-gay, and increasingly all it takes to be called a racist is to
express skepticism about immigration Hallowell shifts topics to conservatives in the media
and how their lack of presence doesnt give them a voice. As an example, he tells the story of
former Miss USA contestant, Carrie Prejean. She was asked a question about whether same-sex
marriage should be legal in every state and as a young, conservative, she believed that marriage
should be between a man and a woman. She was then the victim of personal, abusive attacks
from the left-wing media, Hallowell insists. He goes on by saying it requires a deep emotional
capacity for each of us to consider how we would like to be treated if we were in Prejeans
situation it appears many of us either missed that message entirely or are internally deciding
that certain opinions and perspectives are the only ones worthy of being heard.

This chapter focuses on free speech and how it is diminishing in the media and within different
beliefs. I enjoyed reading this article and I believe it would be very helpful in my thesis. The
author is more conservative giving me another viewpoint without bashing views that are different
from his own. He brings in different voices to back up his claims and they are people who have
experienced it or specialize in the topic. Its very easy to read and understand and has given me a
new perspective on political correctness and that people shouldnt be so quick to dismiss
someones ideas regardless if theyre different.