Data from the recently released American National Election Study has finally provided an answer: Immigration was central to the election, and hostility toward immigrants animated Trump voters. Now that he is president and his immigration views can’t be dismissed as mere campaign rhetoric, a counter-mobilization may finally be manifesting itself. Eighty percent of Trump voters said that speaking English is very important for being “truly American,” but only 43 % of Clinton voters took the same view. Now that he is president and his immigration views can’t be dismissed as mere campaign rhetoric, that counter-mobilization may finally be manifesting itself. Should that backlash develop and sustain itself, the immigration views that helped Trump in 2016 might prove to be his undoing.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 17, 2017 11:03 UTC