280. Sam Rosenfeld on Party Polarization in the Postwar United States
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Democratic Answer to Heritage Foundation
In the 19 seventies, when wou get this new wave of conservative money going into and business money going into funding new think tanks. Ah, they are explicitly modelling all these new think tanks on what they think of as really liberal a precedent. So Air america becomes the democratic answer to right wingd talk radio. You get medium matters as the liberals kind of answer to all these conservative media watchdog groups. A, and as you see, some of centrf american practice is still around and nimportant a player. Some of these work better than others. The iron law of emulation doesn't always work out as intent. There's clearly something to the demographic and psychological predist predis
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