6/12/2023 0 Comments Liberas new president![]() William Howell: Ranked partisanship isn’t entirely the force in American politics that it’s often said to be. On that show, he and his co-hosts interview experts from across the country about the latest political science research, and he says that when you put all the data together, the picture isn’t as bleak as the media would lead you to believe. Paul Rand: Howell is a political scientist at the University of Chicago and the co-host of another U Chicago podcast called Not Another Politics podcast. William Howell: I think we are decidedly not at the brink of a civil war. That’s unless you talk to Professor Will Howell. Paul Rand: If you watch cable news or you read the op-eds, you’re unlikely to find many people who disagree about the impending threat of a civil war in some form or another. Tape: More than 40% of Americans think a civil war is likely in the next decade. Tape: We are on a glide path at this point to having to look down the barrel of possible civil war. In fact, some scholars and commentators are saying, we may be in for just that. Paul Rand: The picture that’s painted for us is of a country that’s on the brink of a civil war. Tape: Survey after survey has shown that Republicans and Democrats now view each other not simply as wrong, but as malevolent, literally a danger to the republic. Paul Rand: Political commentators, journalists, and pundits all saw this moment as a symptom of a larger problem in American politics today, extreme polarization. Tape: The physical destruction of that day has since been cleaned up, but questions of how to repair the deeper damage to our democracy remain. Paul Rand: They were there to subvert the election of Joe Biden based on false claims that the 2020 election was rigged. Tape: Events in Washington have taken a violent and tumultuous turn in the past few hours, as thousands of supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol Building. Paul Rand: On January 6th, 2021, American politics experienced one of its darkest moments.
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