OPINION: Is America Hopelessly Polarized, or Just Allergic to Politics?

The good news about polarization is that it’s overstated — most Americans just really don’t like partisan squabbles.

It seems that the only thing Americans can agree on is that we are living in an era of extreme political polarization. As we head into the 2020 presidential campaign, a striking 91 percent of people said in a recent PRRI survey that the country is divided over politics. This is higher than the percentage of people who reported that America is divided over issues of race and ethnicity (83 percent) or...