Thanks for the review! I’ve been meaning to read this book. But u gotta just copy/paste your whole review here onto SN next time so I don’t have to click the link (but provide the link too).

Can use a markdown converter to preserve all the formatting. Easy!

I think Nate Silver's categorization of people into Riverians (free-thinking tech bro types) and Villagers (DC & academic establishment) is too simplistic. It completely leaves out the trad-cons, e.g. the traditional morals and religious people, and the economic progressives, e.g. Bernie Sanders, AOC & co., both of which are pretty large voting blocs in their own right.

This paragraph was also strange to me:

Villagers think very lowly of the Riverians’ faux desire for competition since they so often see games being rigged in their favor, and not actually risking that much; Riverians benefit from existing social hierarchies and are too blind to their own privileges.

This seems really weird because most people would say that it's the DC & academic elites that have so much of the game rigged in their favor.

Is Silver's book primarily about an inter-elite struggle, leaving out the concerns of most average people?