This is the Cato Dilly Podcast for Wednesday, February 10th, 2016.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The appeal of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate surprised many people.

So what animates his supporters?

And for that matter, what values tend to animate this story? people, so what animates his supporters?

And for that matter, what values tend to animate the supporters of the remaining presidential

candidates?

In a recent piece at Vox, Cato's Emily Eekins, along with social psychologist Jonathan

Hight,

attempt to understand the values that drive voters to support their candidate.

Eekins and I spoke this week.

So on a recent Cato Institute UGov National Survey, we had the opportunity to include a battery of questions

that are used to measure something called moral foundations theory.

This theory was developed by social psychologists to understand and explain

morality across cultures, but as it turns out it actually does a really good job of

explaining differences in morality between liberals, conservatives, and libertarians in

the United States as well. So we included some of these questions and then

looked at how the different presidential candidate supporters scored

along each of the moral foundations. If you want, I can explain what the six foundations are.

All right, so you're talking specifically about some of Jonathan Heights's work

and he wrote this article in Vox-

Haydn with him.

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