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Americans’ anger over politics threatens democracy, WashU professor finds

St. Louis on the Air

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Is This Anger a Recurring Current in American Political Behavior?

I think it's been a slow and, you know, unfortunate turn that this has been an invention. Campaign have realized the extent to which people feel angry in an towards opposite partisans is really stunning. And so if you look at how people evaluate resimes of cross partisans, or when they take these implicit bias tests against cross partisans, they begin to systematical discriminate against cross partisans more even than they do by race.

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