John R. Hibbing, Foundation Regents Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
John R. Hibbing is the Foundation Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His previous works include Stealth Democracy and Predisposed: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Biology of Political Differences. He has received nine National Science Foundation grants, been named a NATO Fellow in Science and a Guggenheim Fellow, and appeared on Star Talk, NPR's Hidden Brain, and The Daily Show.

• Acknowledgments


• Preface


• Chapter 1: Barefoot Over Burning Coals


• Chapter 2: Scared, Resentful, Destitute Hillbillies?


• Chapter 3: Authoritarians Who Dislike Authority


• Chapter 4: The Phorgotten Phenotype


• Chapter 5: The Trump Venerator Next Door


• Chapter 6: Better Secure than Submissive


• Chapter 7: The Many Faces of Trump Veneration


• Chapter 8: Politics and Life after Trump


• References


• Notes


• Index

In The Securitarian Personality, John R. Hibbing draws a detailed portrait of the psychological makeup of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters. They are motivated not by fear and not by a desire for authority and conformity, but rather by a desire to keep themselves, their families, and their country's core cultural group secure and safe from outsiders-defined broadly as anyone not contributing to the strength of societal insiders. Hibbing concludes by considering the likely role of Trump supporters in American politics when there is no Trump.