# Professor Jonathan Haidt comments on Donald Trump's appeal to right-wing voters

1 Faculty News September 15, 2016 ![The Economist logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025662.jpg?itok=1_MW1PTy)>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2016/09/power-magical-thinking) -- "'Trump is something other. Trump is bringing in emotions and concerns that were not well-represented on the traditional left-right scale before', says [Jonathan Haidt](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt), a social psychologist at New York University."

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