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280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States

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Do You Think the Republican Party Is a Good Candidate for the Presidency?

The GOP has been very good at keeping the conversation around these, to me, kind of nebulous, weird cultural outcries about grooming. The more you do that, the less you're talking about unpopular tax cuts for rich people or de regulation of pollutes,. You know, it helps to domina. If you dominate, get politics to be dominated by a certain of cultural arguments that can redound republicans benefit. And this is part of whyt there's big internal debate among democrats as to how best to deal with identity and culture all the time.

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