The coalitions that once were the Republican and Democrat Parties have cracked and begun to fall apart, and in their place, a new alignment is developing that is based almost entirely on social class.
Not economic classes, which in the United States are more fluid than anywhere else in the world, but social classes, which are hardly as fluid because they are foundational to our identity in a way that purchasing power is not.
White college-educated voters–especially those who have attended prestigious colleges and universities–and the cultural elite are foursquare behind the Democrats in a “vote Blue no matter who” fashion; working-class people, increasingly of every race–are backing Trump and moving toward the populist Republicans.
Blacks and Hispanics are trending rightward, while suburban white-collar voters are increasingly Republican. Issues are hardly irrelevant, of…
