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Why we're polarized (Ezra Klein)

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The Other Kind of Alternative Model of Polarization

The liberal overreach theory of polarization is that liberals have been moving to the left much faster than conservatives. The one place i really disagree with aan on this, which i just don't think he does enough to um deal with it, is that it was not policy that started this. It was personnel. Which is to say that what kicked this off was brocco bomma and borocco bama and his presidency were not themselves all that left on these issues. But ferguson gets interpreted in a very, very different way in the modern democratic party and in the modern an more liberal media spheres as well. And we see downstream effects of that. That's why i

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