Why the Left reaches for the powerful party before it asks what anyone did. Israel, the police, and the experiment that measured the reflex.
I pre-registered an experiment with 1,506 U.S. adults to measure whether an actor’s perceived weakness changes how the same conduct is judged. It does, and the effect grows with distance to the political left. Part One sets out the reflex, the cases that exposed it, and what the data showed.
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