How the 2016 Election Made Extremist Discourse Mainstream

• In Event: Extremism and Anti-Elitism in Media and Public Opinion

Brief Overview

This paper attempts to map out trends in conservative media discourse, specifically looking at the spread of extremist ideas into more mainstream discussion and at the causal effect of Donald Trump's election on these trends.

Authors

• Sean Long, University of California, Riverside

• Loren Collingwood, University of California-Riverside