In America, the hard right hates Indians for their skin color and Hindus for their religion. The hard left hates Indians for their success and Hindus for their religion.
The vast middle, still the majority of America, does not hate skin color, actually appreciates success and respects Hinduism (via Yoga, meditation) but it is shrinking and politically lost.
The rise of extreme politics and the shrinking of the middle, are directly caused by the extreme bubbles that have played out in the financial and economic sphere over decades. Extreme increase in wealth inequality is another consequence of those bubbles and a direct cause of the extreme politics.
This was understood and predicted by many deep thinkers who have warned about this exact development for decades. But once an economy gets bubble addicted, it is very hard to wean off. Bubbles even get celebrated as "capitalism" and "wealth creation". Society gets drunk on bubbles.
i have known this at least since the days of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-9 because I was reading those thinkers.
As a result of that understanding, I made a bet in our California office back in 2016 that Trump would win and my American colleagues almost uniformly disagreed with me (California itself voted over 61% for Hillary Clinton).
The next American election could very well see a hard left swing where a committed socialist wins. I hope I am wrong and the sensible middle prevails and we end the bubble era peacefully.
Indian American who immigrated to America at 12 says he felt at home in the Tea Party movement and was never attacked for his race or religion. That has completely changed in the last 12 years.
The right has a real problem.