It seems that the only thing Americans can agree on is that we are living in an era of extreme political polarization. …
Worrying about decades of Thanksgiving dinners with relatives who support the other party might sound like clear evidence that America is hopelessly, alarmingly divided.
But there’s also a growing body of evidence that we’re overstating the divide. The real issue, it turns out, might not be with polarization. It might just be that most people really don’t like politics. Americans are open to people with all sorts of political and partisan opinions, our research shows — as long as they keep those opinions to themselves. CONT.
Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov & John Barry Ryan, New York Times