With the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president Tuesday, American politics are shifting a good deal to the right again. Since before the election, surveys had indicated that U.S. voters would vote significantly more conservatively than in the last election. As Statista’s Katharina Buchhoilz reports, a survey by Statista Consumer Insights also supported this: As of July, around a third of those surveyed in the U.S. said that they thought they had been becoming more conservative personally. In contrast, just 23 percent saw themselves becoming more progressive. The remaining 44 percent did not feel any inner change in their values ​​or said they did not know how to answer the question. Among German survey participants, the share of those turning more conservative (21 percent) was also larger than the share of those feeling more progressive (15 percent), but the share of people seeing no difference was also bigger. This is in line with other Statista survey data showing that centrism is more widespread in Germany than in the United States. Like in the U.S., becoming more conservative was common in Japan. 34 percent saw themselves leaning politically to the right more, while only ten percent felt a tendency to […]