There you have it, the redshirt composition.
In the opposite corner sits the former aging champion, “the whistle blowers”. Now the opposition is also not a yellow shirt anymore. The airport closure a few years back was rallied against Taksin and the use of yellow shirts was to show loyalty to the King. There are a few groups within the opposition side.
First, the elite and royalists believe the redshirts are here to strip them of the benefits they have been enjoying. Most of them always vote “democrat”, the opposition party led by former PM Apisit. I am annoyed every time the western press called them “the elite” as Taksin and his friends are, by any definition, the elite as well. Trust me they need to share the wealth a bit more but Taksin regime is simply a shift from one elite group to another.