Tag: Ezra Klein
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Delegitimizing Government is the GOP’s Only Consistent Play
There’s a game being played right before your eyes. That game is designed to stir up grievance, to cause people to distrust the government. Its a game the GOP has been playing since before the 1980’s. Its the same game they played when Ronald Reagan sold you the Cadillac Driving Welfare Momma, or when George…
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COVID Quarantine Book Review: Why We’re Polarized
Political polarization is the idea that the two main political schools of thought, Democrats and Republicans, are moving further away from each other. In this theory, that movement explains why there’s been a less willingness for compromise in American politics, or really, anything. It also explains some of the social sorting that has been going…