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Trump's Climate Change Denial and Republican Voters Who Bear Its Costs Dr Alan Sanderson October 2026 AbstractThis paper examines why Republican voters support Donald Trump’s climate change denial despite the risks it poses to their homes, livelihoods and communities. Drawing on Weber’s forms of rationality and Tocqueville’s account of democratic conformity, it distinguishes the reasoning that sustains political allegiance from the evidence required to justify environmental policy. Through a critical synthesis of climate science, public opinion research, policy do
