It’s probably true that Reagan and his cronies started this - especially with their instrumentalization of supposedly “Christian values”. But I’m referring more to the direction of “politicians” who no longer compromise at all if it doesn’t serve their personal power interests. It seems to me that this has only become really popular among conservatives since the Tea Party movement. Could be wrong tho.
TIL, thanks. Data is beautiful even if it’s just descriptive like in this case. It’s good to know how the representatives voted even if that cool graph does not say why.
It’s probably true that Reagan and his cronies started this - especially with their instrumentalization of supposedly “Christian values”. But I’m referring more to the direction of “politicians” who no longer compromise at all if it doesn’t serve their personal power interests. It seems to me that this has only become really popular among conservatives since the Tea Party movement. Could be wrong tho.
You are correct that it is kinda recent but it might be earlier than you thought.
https://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8485443/polarization-congress-visualization
TIL, thanks. Data is beautiful even if it’s just descriptive like in this case. It’s good to know how the representatives voted even if that cool graph does not say why.