The past few years of American politics have been divisive and, at times, malicious, from name-calling on social media to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. And judging from one recent poll, all those hits to the nation’s body politic have left a big bruise.
The poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics finds a nation riven by extreme partisanship and alienation and full of citizens who are looking at each other and the larger system with doubt and distrust. You can see the impacts throughout the electorate using a wide range of measures. CONTINUED
Dante Chinni, NBC News
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