being supported by those who were economically left behind and had lost jobs or seen their wages decline. she writes candidate preferences in 2016 reflected increasing anxiety among high-status groups, both growing domestic racial diversity and globalization contributed to a sense that white americans are under siege by these engines of change. the most telling statistic in the united states is surely this, this country, the world's leader in science, has one of the lowest percentages of fully vaccinated adults in the industrialized world. that is because a large number of americans would rather risk exposure to a deadly disease than accept what they regard as dictates from so-called elites. that is the supreme example of the triumph of cultural anxieties and class conflict over facts, data or even one's