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The Active Voice: Richard Hanania is seeking ‘enlightened centrism’

The Active Voice

CHAPTER

The Power of Perspective in Politics

I think people should have perspective on all kinds of issues. People will say, we're going to have a civil war or something in the United States. I had an op-ed Washington Post early before I got started saying there would be no civil war and it was such a stupid thing that everyone was said was going to happen. But people just have no perspective. It's not that you can't find faults with the media. My expectations of humanity are basically just people are hyper emotional, know nothing about policy, are just completely tribal. They don't care what's true or false. That's the most successful people on Twitter, to be honest.

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