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Has political polarization been misunderstood? (with Nick Gillespie)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Cynical View of Politics

How cynically do you view this? Like, do you think that people in power are actually lying about these things or do you think they're just sort of believing these narratives and that just happened to benefit them? Yeah, that's a great question and I think it's always a mix. There are times where it becomes kind of inescapable. For instance, we can look at the way in which the Bush administration ... got Congress to write an authorization of use of military force in Iraq. Some of the people in the Bush administration believe that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; other people knew that he did not.

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