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    How Andrew Yang Quieted the Asian American Right

    Opposition to affirmative action was pulling Asians toward the GOP. Then Yang’s campaign began to gather momentum.
    by Noah Y. Kim Feb 03, 2020 6 minutes
    Source: Mark Abramson / Bloomberg via Getty

    Yukong Zhao wasn’t always a Republican. The Chinese American businessman and longtime independent started to drift to the right in 2014, when he led Asian activists in a campaign against affirmative action that culminated in a high-profile lawsuit against Harvard University. When the Trump administration came out in support of the cause in 2018, he started to give the GOP a closer look. In December, Zhao announced his bid for a Florida congressional seat on the Republican ticket.

    The movement against affirmative action, spearheaded by Chinese Americans like Zhao, generated unprecedented levels of conservative activism among Asian Americans, fueling speculation that the community could be on the verge of abandoning its long-standing allegiance to the Democratic Party. But in recent months, a groundswell of Democratic activism has drowned out much of that conservative excitement.

    The Chinese social-media platform , once a hub for anti-affirmative-action organizers, is now reverberating with blue-hat emojis and cries

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