Divided We Fall
July 21, 2024
Our national politics is white hot. We live in a highly polarized context. Seventy-four percent of people in the U.S. say the country is “on the wrong track.” In the coming months such polarization will fixate on two candidates, and no doubt as anxiety about the American project continues to rise. The historic collapse of trust in government, the media, and one another means that many Americans imagine that a civil war is possible. At the same time, this nadir of trust comes as the price of our politics is at its highest in history: The last presidential election could
