To the Editor:

Re “The Asian-American Age” (column, Sept. 2):

Asian-American identity is in vogue, and Ross Douthat is the latest to offer his thoughts. But Mr. Douthat, focusing on the film “Crazy Rich Asians” and Harvard admissions, misses the complexity of today’s Asian-Americans.

Asian -Americans are the fastest-growing group in the United States and most economically unequal. While we are business leaders in a rapidly changing service economy, we are also low-income new immigrants: waiters, seamstresses and home health care workers who suffer under the double whammy of political invisibility and economic insecurity as wages stagnate.

Mr. Douthat’s musings — that Asians might lead the Democrats back to “1990s-style Clintonism ” — are wrongheaded fantasies. No surveys show voters clamoring for President Bill Clinton’s blend of cutting welfare while deregulating finance. And even if such “centrism” were on the rise, Asian-Americans won’t lead the way.

Recent polling from Asian American Decisions shows that in 2018 Asian-Americans intend to vote Democratic by more than 2 to 1, overwhelmingly supporting taxing the wealthy, protecting Obamacare and increasing the minimum wage.