“But America is what we thought it was. It is still a 50-50 nation, dominated by negative partisanship, in which about half of the country will reliably vote to defeat the other half for the foreseeable future. It is still a nation of propositional pluralism—’send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me’—crossed with ineradicable xenophobia—’go back to where you came from.’ It is still a country teetering on the razor’s edge of both a social-democratic revolution and 1950s-era conservatism.” Derek Thompson: It’s Still the Same United States.

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