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Politics now runs mood first and ideas second, the reverse of how argument worked for most of the twentieth century.

Drawn from what Jennifer Burns said

politics

politics How people actually hold political views: tribes, partisanship, and whether anybody reasons their way in.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

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  1. Jennifer Burns

    Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution

    It seems we're driven much more quickly by moods rather than thought-through ideas. Right now, it seems the ideas they follow the political mood and try to put together the underpinning of it where it really was the opposite for much of the 20th century.

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