Donald Trump is decisively winning white voters who don’t have more than a high-school education, but his stubborn unpopularity with minorities has given Hillary Clinton a narrow overall lead with America’s least-educated voters. Those findings from the latest Purple Slice online poll for Bloomberg Politics highlight two of the biggest […] Read more »
Taco Trucks and the Soul of America
When Marco Gutierrez, the founder of Latinos for Trump, warned last week that increased immigration could lead to “taco trucks on every corner,” he was widely and understandably mocked. … But it was clear enough what Gutierrez meant. Plenty of Americans do see the increasing prevalence of foreign cultures in […] Read more »
How race and identity became the central dividing line in American politics
In 2016, race and identity has emerged as the central dividing line in American politics. Though race has always lived close to the surface of politics in the US, it has rarely been so explicitly front and center in political campaigns. So how did this happen? The easy answer is […] Read more »
America Is Safer Than It Used to Be. So Why Do We Still Have Calls for ‘Law and Order’?
By its own historical standards, America circa 2016 is a safe place. The country’s violent crime rate is about half of what it was in 1991. Cities, in particular, have become markedly less dangerous. Less than half as many police officers are killed in the line of duty today as […] Read more »
Trump’s New Minority Outreach Carries Hidden Agenda, Strategists Say
Donald Trump is testing a novel way to fix a problem that no modern Republican presidential nominee has had. His quest this week to reach out to black and Hispanic voters has a covert agenda, Republican strategists say, of winning back college-educated whites who historically prefer Republicans but seem to […] Read more »
Key ingredients of opposition to free trade? Prejudice and nationalism
… Many observers have noted that Donald Trump’s anti-trade language is decidedly “us versus them.” In Britain, the “leave” movement’s campaign against economic openness was infused with anti-foreign sentiment. A series of studies by both economists and political scientists confirms this link between nationalistic sentiment and opposition to global markets. […] Read more »