Sam Rosenfeld
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In The Polarizers, Sam Rosenfeld details why bipartisanship was seen as a problem in the postwar period and how polarization was then cast as the solution. Republicans and Democrats feared that they were becoming too similar, and that a mushy consensus imperiled their agendas and even American democracy itself. Thus began a deliberate move to match ideology with party label-with the toxic results we now endure. Rosenfeld reveals the specific politicians,...