Trump Is Radicalizing the Democratic Party
For years, data have shown that conservatives have moved much farther right than progressives have moved left, but that trend may be ending.
For years, a cadre of left-leaning, political-science-aligned or -curious pundits have offered a simple diagnosis of what ails American politics: the Grand Old Party.
That’s not an oversimplification of the stance. In 2012, for example, my colleague Norm Ornstein and Tom Mann , “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” The critique hinged on what they call asymmetric polarization—yes, politics is more polarized than any time in recent memory, but that is
