Peter Zeihan
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Interesting.
The first two groups tell us something different.
Number one, the middle group, the organized labor, they're socially conservative, always have been.
And now they're voting that way.
And they really like Trump might be a bit of a stretch.
But Trump is not a pro-business guy.
He's probably the most anti-business president the U.S.
has had in my lifetime.
And the unions love it.
Then you've got the racial minorities, and blacks and Hispanics and Asians agree on nothing.
Asians tend to be much better educated, much more wealthy, not necessarily politically conservative or liberal, more likely to be independent.
African-Americans tend to have been lockstop into the Democratic Party for quite some time, but they voted for Trump in the biggest percentages we've ever seen in modern history.
And the Hispanics split right down the middle of this last election.
They are economically for a degree of redistribution, not anything like the coastal elites.
They tend to be the most up and coming part of the United States.
So they're most likely to shift economically conservative, which doesn't put them in the Republican Party either anymore because that's not what the Republican Party is today.
But at the same time, they're the most anti-immigration group we have.
They want family reunification for their family and no one else.
So the Democratic Party has shattered as an institution.
And when people start talking about conservative or liberal, you really have to ask how they define those terms because the way America defines those terms has changed radically in just the last five years.