Echelon's quadrants are an SOS for economic conservatives

Thermostatic public opinion, a reversal on views of the Congressional parties, New England moderates, the realignment is global, challenging the idea that ChatGPT rots your brain

No. 366 | July 11th, 2025

🗣️ Public Opinion

Echelon Insights’ annual political quadants are out. Here’s the interactive tool where you can break down with the results yourself.

We get at these by asking a series of social and economic questions — with a third establishment vs. populist dimension added this year (more on that soon!).

And this year, the position of economic conservatism continued to deteriorate, to just 36% of the public who could be considered right of center on economic policy issues, to 64% who are left of center. That’s driven by Republicans continuing to move to the center on economic issues, as shown in this animated density plot by Echelon intern Ben Aizenberg: