alright as foretold, the update. @matthewhitt.bsky.social and i got *another* wave of our SCD panel study back. ive posted this paper before, but we've added a third study to it, showing how "fatalism" lays at core of loss of legitimacy. thread incoming.
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Supreme Court legitimacy is so far in the tank right now that it’s crystallizing into a form of fatalism. And we have the data to show it — will post tomorrow. It’s a real doozy.
preliminarily: no change in democrats' diffuse support. supreme court legitimacy is in the proverbial shitter, folks. but, somewhat ironically, even *republicans* are now low key like maybe this thing is off the rails, too.
something like that crossed with a zaller salience thing. the court has basically received sustained, negative press for a year + hitt and searles' work on horse race coverage of court decreasing trust / legitimacy. combo is that it should drive down legitimacy, net, even w sorting out. (i think)
