Social Fragmentation And the Trump Win

Totally unregulated alt media is the key threat to federal governance

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To understand what happened this week empirically, let’s examine the math behind this week’s election. I will apply the dual lenses of a corporate market researcher AND anthropologist.

Here we go!

• ~172M adults voted last Tuesday¹

• 265.8M adults (18+) lived in the U.S. as of the end of 2023.²

Around 65% of eligible adult voters…