343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Rise of Conservative Talk Radio
There is talk about this sort of pushing back into the into the 60s like when you started to get those liberal republicans becoming conservative democrats. There wasn't any cross party sort of bipartisanship efforts anymore there's stories about even how just sort of the norms in washington dc changed and so our other kind of identities are starting to fall under the umbrella of our party identity. People of color are migrating to the democratic party and so you have fewer people of color in the republican party uh evangelical christians are all migrating into the republican party. So as sort of these other identities start to go around and rotate around our partisan identities that can feel a lot more threatening right?
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