College graduates have dramatically shifted left over the past two decades, moving from voting Republican by double-digit margins in the 1980s to supporting Democrats by 15 points today. Noam Scheiber, author of 'Mutiny,' reveals how a combination of economic pressures—soaring student debt, underemployment, industry consolidation, and the 2008 financial crisis—has transformed highly educated workers from conservative professionals into economic populists demanding wealth redistribution and challenging billionaire power. College graduates were promised affluence through education but faced massive student debt (doubled between early 1990s and 2020), underemployment during the Great Recession, and decades of wage stagnation that triggered a shift toward left-wing populism.