The well-respected Republican pollster Scott Rasmussen has identified (through expensive polling research) the emergence of a cohort of well-off urbanites who make up the ultra-left one percent of voters.
The demographics associated with this group will surprise no one. To wit: These folks are disproportionately young (between 35 and 54), white, upper middle class, and highly educated. They really like the job Joe Biden has turned in over the past three-plus years – think there is too much individual freedom in the United States – and are enthusiastic fans of any and all things Green New Deal.
Contrasting this progressive block with the well-studied blue collar deplorables (primarily white, high school educated, church-going, flyover located, liberty loving) explains an awful lot about the bitterly polarized era in which we live.
But such an explanation is too simplistic. There is more to the animosity/resentment angle than the number of graduate degrees each group possesses or whether they read the New York Times or watch WWE. And it begins with how regular ol’ folks interpret what America’s ruling class has accomplished – or more........