Speaking of prototype Democratic voters, political guru Nate Silver, has discovered another characteristic. One reason the Democrats have lurched to the left is that its voter base increasingly consists of college and post/graduate Americans who way underperform in the real-world economy and earn less than $60k a year.

Silver posted this chart and explanation:

Based on this grid, what is the most Democratic voting group in America? It’s voters with postgraduate degrees but lower-to-middle household incomes of $30K to $60K per year.

This is very much also the sweet spot for the DSA. In the group’s most recent member survey in 2021, 80 percent of members aged 25 or older had bachelor’s degrees, but 45 percent had household incomes below $60,000 per year.

This helps explain why dumping student loans on taxpayers has become a core policy plank of the Left – and what a mistake it was to publicly finance so many low-value degrees in the first place.