The new silent majority

Matt Yglesias on the American center (-left)

Data from the Pew Research Center shows that Republicans enjoy the allegiance of the vast majority of white voters without a college degree — a trend that Trump will, if anything, accelerate. 

Democrats, meanwhile, enjoy overwhelming majorities among people of color, who now comprise almost 40 percent of their party — a trend that Trump will, again, accelerate. 

White Democrats these days are mostly college graduates, and mostly women. 

And while white male Democrats will back Clinton over Trump, they went pretty overwhelmingly for Sanders in the primaries. 

Clinton’s core coalition is composed of racial minorities and well-educated women, especially unmarried ones.

Clinton also enjoys the support of more than 70 percent of LGBTQ Americans and is trouncing Trump with Jewish voters by higher margins than any 21st-century Democrat.

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Clinton’s signature weakness is that she is an ultimate insider — a veteran of a system many Americans have come to despise. 

This is, however, another way of saying that she has an unusually impressive résumé for a presidential candidate, with a longer and wider range of experience than any president since the Civil War. 

Clinton’s silent majority values competence and experience, and recognizes that it’s no coincidence the first plausible woman president had to be the most well-qualified candidate in generations and equally un-coincidental that in the hands of her enemies her great asset has been relabeled as a weakness.

A lot of good sense about who and what Americans are now.

This is not Pat Buchanan's America.