2017 Washington Post poll found that seven in ten Americans thought America’s political polarization is now as severe as it was during the Vietnam War era, reaching a “dangerous low point.”3 A 2019 survey from American Enterprise Institute found that about half of Americans believe the other party doesn’t want what’s best for the country. That’s likely because Americans increasingly misperceive the nature of those who vote for the opposite political party: both Democrats and Republicans radically overestimate the secularism and radicalism of the constituency of the Democratic Party, for
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