While politics in America has not been mild or easygoing any time in recent memory, this past week kicked it up another notch. In the past few days, former president Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan on fraud charges, a polarized and consequential state Supreme Court race concluded, and the Tennessee House GOP expelled two Black Democratic lawmakers over gun violence protests. What a week.
It’s not over yet. Title 42, the pandemic-era ban on immigration, ends in a month, which will inevitably restart debate on one of the hot-button topics of American politics.
In short, polarization is front and center in public conversation. CONTINUED
Clifford Young, Sarah Feldman & Bernard Mendez, Ipsos
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