Tribes Of The Right
1st November 2021
ZMan does some taxonomy.
If it was possible to hold a convention of people who makes some claim to being right-wing, it would be a quite a crowd. Polling consistently shows that about 40% of white Americans identify as conservative. About 20% identify as liberal. The remaining 40% probably lean proportionally. People who claim to be “moderate” are always left-wing, often far-left. On the other hand, people with no interest tend to live right-wing, so it is hard to know for sure how the undocumented fall.
Regardless, the right side of the scale is a crowded place, but there is not much agreement on what it means to be right-wing in America.