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Moore-Butts #8 -- The Politics of The Lie

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge

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The Polarization of the 2020 Campaign

We forget the 2020 campaign was a very unusual campaign. Joe Biden could get away with not campaigning because we were all in our basements, right? Famously, and the Trump campaign tried to make an issue of that. And when Trump did start to develop some momentum, the end of the campaign was when he said, script, I'm going to go do these rallies anyway. The dynamics of 2020, like every single election campaign in Canada or the U.S., is no science at all. They are all it's a moment in time influenced by a constellation of issues around that particular date on a calendar.

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