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Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 27, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Suppose there is some trait in people which increases their wish to disregard everything and vote against ruling party or candidate who's in name party as ruling one. If this trait is already named, what is its name, and what are its correlates?

Perhaps "anti-establishment orientation". It's a measure of how much one is against the current elite establishment. That research article I linked to argues that it's an independent dimension from the Democrat/Republican partisan dimension, and this article goes through political history of the past three decades to demonstrate how voters with anti-establishment orientation keep switching parties.