OPINION: America’s Most Educated, Engaged Citizens Are Making Politics Worse

It turns out that the people who care the most about politics have the least understanding of their political opponents.
The More in Common project has just released the results of its latest deep dive into American polarization, and they make for a deeply discouraging read.

It turns out that most Americans have fundamentally mistaken notions about their political opponents, consistently believing that they are substantially more extreme than they really are. For example, Democrats are far less likely to support open borders, far more likely to support private...