It’s no secret that American politics has become increasingly – and maybe, irreversibly – polarized.
Biden lays it all off on Trump … totally ignoring the role that he and Obama played.
Let’s look at some inconvenient facts and put them in perspective…
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Way back in 2014, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd observed:
Polarization is no longer just polluting the system — it’s paralyzing it.
The deepening divide between the right and the left has largely hollowed out the center of American politics.
Gone are the politicians who once occupied the large “middle” and the voters who once gravitated to them.
Todd’s observations were true then, and they’re true now.
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The Pew Research Center has tracked party identity and ideology for decades.
One way they do it is by scoring the Republicans and Democrats on a 10-item scale of political values.
Based on the latest Pew data (from 2017), here’s where we stand:
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What the chart means …
Democrats cluster to the left, Republicans cluster to the right.
Less than 10 percent in each party overlaps ideologically with the other side.
That’s where we are.
How did we get here?
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