Like presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy and Hung Cao, running against Tim Kaine for the Senate in Virginia, Qiu marks the rise of a new kind of Republican—one who speaks the language of MAGA (railing against our “endless migrant crisis” and “open border”) but is younger, less angry, more ecumenical, and from a minority group that has historically voted with the Democratic Party.

“We’re expanding the boundaries of the MAGA agenda,” Kenny Xu, who is running in the Republican primary in North Carolina’s Thirteenth Congressional District, said in a phone interview.

Xu, the 26-year-old author of School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them, said Asian Americans’ rightward lurch was born of a feeling of betrayal.

[Three data points do not necessarily a trend make, but it’s worth watching. Asian-Americans have ended up near the bottom of the Woke Victimology Sweepstakes, with Jews at the very bottom. Indeed, the last four weeks have shown that Jews likely have it worse than whites among the progressive cognoscenti. Both groups have ample reason to feel betrayed by the Left, but these kinds of shifts usually take time — and an alternative willing to welcome them into the tent. — Ed]