RBG and the Politics of Loss

The following post for members is by Leonard Steinhorn, Professor of Communication and History at American University and a former political speechwriter. 

When candidate Donald Trump issued his list of prospective Supreme Court justices four years ago, that signaled to conservatives and evangelicals that he was on their side — and it galvanized their support for his candidacy. President Trump today may be thinking that the opportunity he now has to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg with her ideological opposite may once again turbocharge his election prospects. Political psychology suggests otherwise.