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October 2024 Issue [Report]

Demographics
vs. Destiny

The dawn of the Asian-American conservative

Illustrations by Lucy Jones

The image isn’t so indelible, really, three years later, but still it made the rounds: an Asian man in a suit and a blue surgical mask kneeling in the Capitol Rotunda on January 7, 2021, picking up by hand debris left by a furious and giddy mob the day before. The man in the photograph is the New Jersey representative Andy Kim, a House Democrat who had not only won a Trump-leaning district in 2018 but convinced his constituency to split the ticket and reelect him two years later. Feted on social media…

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