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“Can We Break Out of Our Hyperpolitical Moment?”

Bought this so fast.

“Everyday life in the United States and other Western democracies is increasingly politicized: our political ideologies, as curated on social media, have become central to our identities and have even increasingly come to structure our closest personal relationships. Yet this heightened politicization has not translated into meaningful policy change. Instead, the public’s dissatisfaction with traditional parties of both the Left and the Right continue to grow, while a panoply of new right-populist formations has managed to win over disaffected voters in ever larger numbers across the developed world. Meanwhile, the core elements of the neoliberal economic program — low taxes, public disinvestment, and corporate handouts — remain the order of the day.”