The Daily Chart: Why Democrats Lost for Dummies

The evolutionary biologist Colin Wright, who always regarded himself as a centrist-liberal, got a lot of heat for generating the top chart below of how the aggressive-progressive left (which is how they ought to be understood) went so far left that it pushed people like him to the right. The media/academic complex is wedded to the idea that it is the Republican Party that has become the “insurgent outlier” destabilizing American political life. But as the second chart below, produced by the Financial Times from survey data on immigration and affirmative action, shows, Wright had it right all along.

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But remember—J.D. Vance is “weird.”

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