Buying New York property and shedding censored chat apps, these Trump supporters are defying demographic destiny. When Phoebe Xu left China for the U.S. as a 20-year-old in 1982, she was fleeing a suppressed society marked by the after effects of the bloody Cultural Revolution. So more than three decades later, when a political-correctness-decrying capitalist rose to the top of the presidential pecking order in her new home, she didn’t see a pariah — like many of her Asian American peers — but a powerful testament to social conservatism and free speech. Xu soon found she wasn’t alone. Along with hundreds of others, the 57-year-old project manager began posting to a sprawling pro-Trump group on WeChat, China’s most popular social media app. |