The Politics of Partisanship

David Gergen: The way in which ferocious partisanship is elevating such incredible mediocrities, because the reality is you just don't have to persuade that many people. He says it's one of the more unanticipated developments of hyper-partisanship and how it enables staggering levels of mediocrity. "If there's one thing you cannot do, it's abandon your corrupt mediocrity for the other side," he adds.