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# It’s not ‘polarization.’ We suffer from Republican radicalization.
- URL: https://werd.io/its-not-polarization-we-suffer-from-republican-radicalization/
- Published: 2021-11-26T17:20:13.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-26T17:20:13.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“The polarization argument too often treats both sides as equally worthy of blame, characterizing the problem as a sort of free-floating affliction (e.g., “lack of trust”). This blurs the distinction between a Democratic Party that is marginally more progressive in policy positions than it was a decade ago, and a Republican Party that routinely lies, courts violence and seeks to define America as a White Christian nation.”

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