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Is It the Media?
The environment has changed in a lot of ways. The Democrats for 40 years had the majority, and so therefore it actually is a decent environment to compromise on national issues. Now we have this kind of 50-50 color war that's awful for compromise. But also it is social media,. I call it hypercharged tribalism. In the 60s you had kind of distributed tribalism. You had some people that are worked up about the USSR. Right? They're national. That's what they care about. US versus foreign. Today you don't have that. What's left is justice, left versus right thing. And so that's kind of this hypercharged world pool that subsumes