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Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left

The Good Fight

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The Politics of Persuasion

The polarization of our public discourse does make it such that any criticism of the left immediately is seen as an argument for the right. I don't believe particularly in the argument that America would be sort of better by a system of proportional representation. But one with great advantages of a political system like Germany, for example, is that when somebody on the left has a really stupid idea there are people from other ring political parties who have an institutional incentive to criticize them.

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