John Mueller, in Public Opinion Quarterly (Spring 1988), Univ. of Chicago Press, PO. Box 37005, Chicago, 111. 60637.
As the 1988 campaign progresses, one trend seems clear: Americans are far more tolerant of the opinions of others than they were in the past.
Mueller, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, believes that Americans have become more willing to listen to extreme left-wing groups, and have not increased their distaste for any political group or opinion. Since the 1950s,...