The Ideological Differences Between Republicans and Democrats in the United States

Despite this self-correcting mechanism in the US Constitution, our American experiment has been feeling particularly fragile lately. And I was interested to hear you say that you see the actual ideological differences between Republicans and Democrats in the United States today, as smaller than they were in the 1960s or other times. But it sure doesn't feel that way on the ground. Do you want to make this case that actually our differences are smaller? And how is it that we can have comparatively small ideological differences and yet be unable to talk to each other? Yeah, that's the big question. I don't have an easy answer. We still need to research that.