Why We’re Polarized Audiobook (Free)

Learn how American politics became a toxic program, why we take part in it, and what it means for our future—from journalist, political commentator, and cofounder of Vox, Ezra Klein.

After Election Day 2016, both supporters and opponents from the soon-to-be president hailed his victory like a historically unprecedented event. Many Americans could agree that no applicant like Donald Trump acquired ever been elected Chief executive before. But politics journalist Ezra Klein makes the case the fact that 2016 about Why We’re Polarized election wasn’t astonishing at all. Actually, Trump’s electoral success followed the very same template as earlier elections, by taking a nearly identical percentage of voter demographics as previous Republican candidates.

Over the past 50 years in the us, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, spiritual, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. Those merged identities have attained a excess weight that’s breaking much inside our politics and tearing at the bonds that keep this country jointly.

In this groundbreaking reserve, Klein shows how and just why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the globe and each other. And he traces the feedback loops between our polarized political identities and our polarized political organizations that are driving our political program towards crisis.

Neither a polemic nor a lament, Klein offers a clear platform for understanding from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward change to the politicization of everyday culture. A revelatory publication that will change how you take a look at politics, as well as perhaps at yourself.