I think people tend to have pretty short memories when it comes to demographics and voting patterns.
For instance, in the last US election Harris got the exact same percentage of the overall vote as John Kerry did in 2004. If you took the current narrative at face value, you'd assume that she did that by overperforming among women and non-whites relative to Kerry to make up for whites and men shifting to the right, but that's not the case at all. Harris got just us much support from men as John Kerry did, and she performed better among white men and whites overall than Kerry did. And she did better among young people than Kerry, which sort of belies the notion of younger voters shifting to the right.
Trump won on the backs of the middle aged, winning the 45-64 age group by 10 points (Bush only won that by about 3 points).
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