In 2020, amid a year of violence and fear, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were hypervisible – and that changed the way they look at themselves and politics, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
As the global pandemic took hold, then-President Donald Trump started using xenophobic terms to blame the Chinese for spreading Covid-19. Anti-Asian hate crimes spiked, with people self-reporting more than 9,000 incidents to the advocacy organization Stop AAPI Hate. A shooter in Atlanta killed eight people, six of them East Asian women, and sparked national outrage. Then came a shooting in Indianapolis that had Sikhs mourning.
All of these events created a political solidarity unlike anything the community has seen before. CONTINUED
Rishika Dugyala & Beatrice Jin, Politico
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