I dug in and found the study to garner incredibly fascinating and more illuminating insights into the Democrat/liberal respondents. In short, about 40% of the Dems are white affluent "educated" liberals - the very stereotypical Republican! - who are largely detached from how all other Dems (and Republicans for that matter) think about government.
Further, there are large swaths of Dems that are ripe for "Red-pilling."
This is a LONG survey, so what follows is my attempt to boil down the survey. I apologize in advance for the length.
First, if you look into their methodology page a few things leap out, aside from the fact that this is all based on a few thousand people. Most notably, Solid Liberals are over-sampled while the Country First Conservatives are under-sampled. This is likely due to most liberals wanting everyone to know what they think because they're just so interesting while most conservatives hang up when a stranger asks them personal questions. Thus, treat the aggregate survey with caution.
Cutting to the chase...(emphasis added)
Divisions on the left
The four groups in the Democratic coalition differ on a number of issues: While they all strongly support the social safety net, the Democratic-leaning groups are divided on government regulation of business, and government performance more generally. And like the GOP coalition, they disagree on U.S. global involvement.
While there have long been racial, ethnic and income differences within the Democratic coalition, these gaps are especially striking today. Reflecting the changing demographic composition of the Democratic base, for the first time there are two majority-minority Democratic-leaning typology groups, along with two more affluent, mostly white groups.
Solid Liberals are the largest group in the Democratic coalition, and they make up close to half (48%) of politically engaged Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. Largely white, financially comfortable and highly educated (most are college graduates and nearly a third have postgraduate degrees), Solid Liberals overwhelmingly express liberal attitudes on virtually every issue.
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For the most part, Opportunity Democrats agree with Solid Liberals on major issues. But Opportunity Democrats are less affluent, less politically engaged and less liberal – both in their attitudes on issues and in how they describe themselves politically. One area of difference between Opportunity Democrats and Solid Liberals is on corporate profits: 40% of Opportunity Democrats say most corporations make a “fair and reasonable amount of profit,” compared with 16% of Solid Liberals. And Opportunity Democrats stand out in their belief that most people can get ahead if they are willing to work hard.
Disaffected Democrats have very positive feelings toward the Democratic Party and its leading figures. Their disaffection stems from their cynicism about politics, government and the way things are going in the country. This financially stressed, majority-minority group supports activist government and the social safety net, but most say government is “wasteful and inefficient.” A large majority of Disaffected Democrats say their side has been losing in politics, while fewer than half believe that voting gives them a say in how the government runs things.
A second majority-minority group, Devout and Diverse, faces even tougher financial hardships than Disaffected Democrats. Devout and Diverse also are the most politically mixed typology group (about a quarter lean Republican), as well as the least politically engaged. Like Disaffected Democrats, they are critical of government regulation of business. They also are the most religiously observant Democratic-leaning group, and the only one in which a majority (64%) says it is necessary to believe in God to be moral and have good values.
I'll now post just a few question and response graphs that show how closely aligned many Dems are with Republican views, and it's largely the Solid Liberals (who probably inhabit the media and Deep State) who suck up all the oxygen.
It appears the Trump Administration is tapping into these areas of commonality, if you focus on the areas of overlap. To be sure, there are LOTS of areas of disagreement. But I truly believe there is a YUGE opportunity for Trump to build a long-lasting Deplorable coalition that could continue governing long enough to repair the damage of decades of neglect and abuse.
Thanks for listening.