The major party coalitions rest on those two groups - slightly more than 4 in 10 Republicans are core conservatives and about half of Democrats are solid liberals - but both parties fill out their ranks with smaller groupings, some of which disagree in key respects with each other. No other group in either party coalition comes close to that level of involvement, a gap which did not exist before Trump’s victory. Six in 10 have contacted an elected official. Four in 10 have participated in a protest. About half have contributed money to a candidate or campaign in the past year. In the aftermath of Trump’s election, solid liberals have become by far the most politically active part of the public. They have a strong belief in the social safety net and the importance of government regulation, see inequality and discrimination as major problems in the country, have positive views of immigrants and overwhelmingly see openness to the rest of the world as a crucial American value. The solid liberals are also typically white and financially comfortable, mostly with college degrees or higher, and not traditionally religious. Nine out of 10 feel discrimination against women is a thing of the past in the U.S., more than 8 in 10 say the country already has “made needed changes to give blacks equal rights” and a similar share feel that because of government benefit programs, “poor people have it easy.” They hold traditional conservative views favoring small government and a positive view of American involvement in the global economy. The core conservatives are an overwhelmingly white, mostly male and financially comfortable group - slightly more than half say their families have achieved the American dream. About 1 in 5 politically active Americans fit into the core conservative grouping, Pew finds, while about 1 in 4 is a solid liberal. Those two groups form the anchors of the nation’s two political party coalitions. Just over half the solid liberals and slightly less than half the core conservatives feel life will be worse. In both groups, only about 3 in 10 feel the next generation will have better lives. The two largest groups in Pew’s political typology - core conservatives and solid liberals - have fairly similar levels of pessimism about the next generation’s prospects, albeit for different reasons. Overall, 48% of those surveyed said worse, compared with 29% who said life would be better, continuing a downbeat view of America’s future that has dominated U.S. In addition to the question about winning, the pessimistic view jumps out from a question about whether life for the next generation of Americans will be better or worse than life today. On the GOP side, the belief that their side is losing, despite holding a majority in both houses of Congress, fuels conservative challenges to Republican incumbents and efforts to overthrow party leaders.
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