… Americans in earlier decades were motivated to participate in politics largely by having strong and positive attachments to their own political party. That’s no longer true. Today’s voters are driven instead by what political scientists Alan Abramowitz and Steven Webster have called “negative partisanship”: Democrats loathe Republicans, and Republicans abhor Democrats. …
Climate change is one of the issues where beliefs have polarized along partisan lines. Democrats tend to be more likely than Republicans to think that humans are responsible for climate change and to favor taking policy action to combat it.
So do these differences in opinion translate into ill wishes toward the “other side”? CONT.
Steven Webster & Matt Motta, Monkey Cage