Americans’ political behavior and beliefs have grown ever more partisan over the past 40 years. Democrats and Republicans alike have become more likely to support their own party’s candidates, to adopt their own party’s issue positions, and even to distort their perceptions of objective facts to fit their own party’s preferred version of reality. While political scientists have spent two decades documenting these trends, Donald Trump’s presidency has broadened and accelerated this process. CONT.
To understand these changes, I compared the results of surveys conducted by the Internet survey firm YouGov in November 2017 and January 2020. CONT.
Larry M. Bartels (Vanderbilt), Monkey Cage
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