“Professional class (East) Asian Americans: this group is becoming more organized, driven by their aspiration to be wealthy, their desire for representation, and the feeling they are not getting what their hard work should get them. Difficulty buying a house, getting into an elite college, getting a promotion, etc. This group is ripe to be disrupted by pointing out alternatives to the American dream that could actually work better for them.”

The Democratic Party represents groups who have “willingly adapted to a complex world where the social value of education is rising, credentialed specialists hold increased influence over policymaking, …while the Republican Party “serves as the voice of a populist backlash to the authority of professional experts and cultural progressives, looking back to a simpler era when a different set of values and qualities were socially rewarded.”

Democrats are no longer seen as the party of the working class: “The Democratic party has transformed from its historical position as an anti-establishment coalition into what many now see as the party of institutional stability and elite interests.”

“I still think that you have to have a level of wealth to be an influencer. I think, to have it in mass, you at least need to perpetuate some of the same standards…appear to have a certain wealth that gives you a certain level of credence. You need to have a certain level of adjacency to elite status, real, imagined…that structure is still very much in place.”

“…I think the way the average American sees status is far more exclusively rooted in economics than they should…we imported and added on these levels of status...because humans kind of naturally have to organize ourselves, and race was not enough of a differentiator in the early founding of America.”

“Effort is part of the ways in which we distinguish ourselves…effort’s part of status. You can’t actually have status without some effort…effort is also elitist…there is a lot of capital in bad taste and derision…they need to signal on every level that they are oppressed and they are part of the status-disadvantaged group, because then that is how they believe they can confer esteem.”