Partisan Schadenfreude

“… willing to vote for a candidate of unknown ideological leanings who promises to pass policies that ‘disproportionately harm’ supporters of the opposing political party.”

Start here, which links back to this paper.

Said paper shows:

Partisan schadenfreude is a powerful predictor of voting intentions in the United States. Moving from below the median to above the median on our schadenfreude measure predicts an increase of approximately 13 points.

And what does that mean, exactly?

Americans voters “are not averse to supporting…