Not the first time I've seen this theory, and it's not hard to prove.
...Our political parties have fused with corporate and bureaucratic America into a donor-led, greed-driven ‘uniparty’. The manifest density of money and power has elicited mass revolts from the grassroots of both parties, but the DNC has defeated them all. First it defeated Bernie Sanders in 2016. Next it defeated the return of Sanders in 2020. Now it has defeated the revolt of the Republican grassroots by drawing away a small but crucial number of aspirational white suburbanites who voted for Trump in 2016. Were they repelled by four years of presidential tweeting, or intimidated by the demonization of Trump supporters as racists and losers? Aspirational suburbanites are the kind of people who used to be Republicans. They know how fast a fall from affluence can happen. They recognize where the social, financial and political power now lies.
Follow the money: in 2020, residents of ZIP codes with a median household income of at least $100,000 donated $486 million to Joe Biden’s campaign and $167 million to Donald Trump’s. The thousand or so ZIP codes where at least 65 percent of residents have graduated from college gave $478 million to Biden and $104 million to Trump. The ZIP codes in which Trump outraised Biden were those below the national median household income of $68,703, where Trump led by $53.4 million, and those without a preponderance of college graduates, where Trump led by nearly $40 million. Two nations, divided by a common understanding of what the oligarchy is, how it works, and who it works for....
Those "suburban women" know where the power lies: in the Regulatory State to which they are very happy to adapt and adopt. Look at the change in vote-pattern of Brookfield. 50 years ago, you could find a Democrat voter, but you'd have to look long and hard and know the secret password. They didn't want to be identified. Kennedy was the beginning of the end of the (R) hegemony there, however.
Now the State Senator is running like Hell for the left side of the room, even though he's a nominal R. Why? Brookfield is almost exclusively populated with Managerial Class; people dependent on Government for their income-stream. (Wauwatosa is even worse.) Lawyers, doctors, bankers, HR twits, bureaucrats, risk-managers.....ANYONE who needs Gummint permits (or spending) to operate.....well,........there's not a yeoman among them.
That's why the Red is increasingly further from the cities. Yeomen will not be part of the hive; they work too damn hard.
Glad I am out of Wauwatosa.
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