Instead, they’re broadly suspicious of government, business and the political system. They’re not particularly religious or interested in social issues. The market skeptics also lean to the GOP, but for different reasons. Just over half say they approve of Trump’s conduct, a view shared by only about 1 in 6 of the public at large. The country-first conservatives are the only group that not only has a positive view of Trump’s job performance, but also a favorable view of how he conducts himself. They’re also the only group in which a majority says society should discourage homosexuality. Suspicion of immigrants and concern about the loss of American identity are key to their makeup. About 1 in 6 live in households where at least one member belongs to a labor union, a share higher than any other group. The county-first conservatives are heavily rural, mostly non-college-educated, religiously devout and older - about half say they are retired. They also divide to some extent on their views of immigration.ĭisagreements are sharper on the Republican side, particularly with two groups, which Pew calls country-first conservatives and market skeptics, that played important roles in Trump’s victory. The Democratic-leaning groups generally share liberal views and opposition to Trump but disagree on the degree to which they believe the nation’s economic and political systems work. The major party coalitions rest on those two groups - slightly more than 4 in 10 Republicans are core conservatives and about half of Democrats are solid liberals - but both parties fill out their ranks with smaller groupings, some of which disagree in key respects with each other. No other group in either party coalition comes close to that level of involvement, a gap which did not exist before Trump’s victory. Six in 10 have contacted an elected official. Four in 10 have participated in a protest. About half have contributed money to a candidate or campaign in the past year. In the aftermath of Trump’s election, solid liberals have become by far the most politically active part of the public.
They have a strong belief in the social safety net and the importance of government regulation, see inequality and discrimination as major problems in the country, have positive views of immigrants and overwhelmingly see openness to the rest of the world as a crucial American value. The solid liberals are also typically white and financially comfortable, mostly with college degrees or higher, and not traditionally religious. Nine out of 10 feel discrimination against women is a thing of the past in the U.S., more than 8 in 10 say the country already has “made needed changes to give blacks equal rights” and a similar share feel that because of government benefit programs, “poor people have it easy.” They hold traditional conservative views favoring small government and a positive view of American involvement in the global economy. The core conservatives are an overwhelmingly white, mostly male and financially comfortable group - slightly more than half say their families have achieved the American dream. About 1 in 5 politically active Americans fit into the core conservative grouping, Pew finds, while about 1 in 4 is a solid liberal. Those two groups form the anchors of the nation’s two political party coalitions.
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