A new survey by NBC News and Esquire magazine measures what anyone paying attention to Campaign 2016 already knows — Americans are angry, especially white, middle-class Americans.

The “rage survey” released this week found that half of Americans say they are more angry than they were a year ago, and a plurality of them say they get mad at least once every day at something they hear or read in the news. They say that they’re living in a less-powerful America, that life hasn’t turned out the way they had hoped, and that for them, the American dream has died.

This fury is a bipartisan thing: More than three-quarters of Republicans and two-thirds of Democrats surveyed feel this way. Two presidential candidates have positioned themselves to ride this discontent: Donald Trump, who is seeking the Republican nomination, and Bernie Sanders, who wants the Democratic nomination. Their appeals couldn’t be more different.

In his pledges to banish undocumented Mexican immigrants, Muslims and most foreign competition from the American landscape, Mr. Trump plays on what the survey’s authors call “the anger of perceived disenfranchisement — a sense that the majority has become a persecuted minority.” These people could be Republicans or Democrats; they don’t agree that immigration strengthens the nation and are “significantly” more likely to say the American dream is dead and twice as likely to say “white men are struggling to keep up in today’s world.”