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Jiajun Han
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Liberté, égalité, et fraternité.
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And sanity.
November 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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For a deeper dive into our paper and past Republican gains among the working-class, see this thread:
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owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jun 4
A recent @nytimes.com analysis found that over the last three presidential elections "Republicans are overwhelmingly making gains in working-class counties. Democrats are improving almost exclusively in wealthier areas." Our research shows similar patterns among donors. 🧵 cup.org/4cfm0Az
Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base SEAN KATES, ERIC MANNING, TALI MENDELBERG and OMAR WASOW Comparative scholarship suggests authoritarian candidates often rely on backing from the wealthy. The wealthy are also said to play an important role in American campaign finance. Studies of Donald Trump, however, found that he drew significant support from white Americans with less education and privilege. We evaluate wealthy and non-wealthy Americans’ financial support for Trump, compared to other candidates, by constructing a comprehensive dataset of property values matched to contributions and voter files. We find Trump underperformed among wealthy Republican donors while mobilizing new non-wealthy donors. Trump also diversified the donorate, especially by education. That is, Trump built an unusual coalition of wealthy and non-wealthy donors. Our results support an alternative, “plutopopulist” model of Trump’s financial base.
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Pittoresque.
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Remorselessly.
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Putin is the cancer of our planet. Europe has to brace itself against russian metastasis.
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM