We Didn't Start The Fire

Republicans Have Been Calling Democrats Socialists since 1996

Let’s set the table with what the research actually says, not what the right-wing infotainment machine screams. Political science has been measuring polarization for decades and the verdict is not that it came from Democrats.

Scholars have been warning for more than a decade that our polarization is asymmetric. Mann & Ornstein called it out plainly; Gros…