Is There a Silent Majority in the Republican Party?

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i'm ready torn on this point, because i agree with you that there's a lot of caricature and denunciatory caricature going on about the other side. But it's not the sound majority of richard nixon. It's not a reactionary sound majority at all. Many, if not most, of the kinds of republicans i'm talking about are not voting for donaltram. They are actually voting against liberals and progressoves. Republican voters to day is feeling humiliated by people like you and me. And as again, psychologists have pointed out, humiliation, clarly, when it is repeated, sinks its claws deeper into the human psyche than even intense emotions like anger or happiness

Irshad Manji has a lot of experience in trying to persuade those who really don’t want to be persuaded.

Early in her career, Irshad wrote two influential books that advocated for a reformed Islam. In conversations with religious conservatives around the world, she found that a combative style did not help her win adherents for her cause; instead, she started to acknowledge their views—before proudly arguing for her own. Now, Irshad runs the Moral Courage project, a pedagogical approach that hopes to make progress on contested issues like racism without shaming its participants.

On the latest episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Irshad about why we should not judge those who disagree with us; how we can hope to persuade them of our own positions; and why we should be more optimistic about America’s future than is now fashionable.

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