Economic anxiety is not why Trump was elected.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Most of the people who voted for Trump in the General Election did so because he was the official Republican nominee. Ethnic politics and the culture wars play a huge rule in partisan identification in the United States. Most of these voters are also reasonably well off. Not much to discuss about them.

The interesting questions concern those voters who voted for Trump in the General Election for reasons other the party next to his name on the ballot (of particular interest: those who voted for Trump and for at least some Democrats downticket, and those who voted for Trump but had previously voted for Obama) and for the people who voted for Trump in the Republican primary.

Unless we make these distinctions then there's little hope of meaningful debate on this matter. But I wonder sometimes whether that's the point.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Unless we make these distinctions then there's little hope of meaningful debate on this matter. But I wonder sometimes whether that's the point.

Alas...