A lot of the projects to fix this (and I'm not referring to Putnam here) are some version of "we just need to educate people!", that evergreen favorite of the educated classes, which only makes the divide deeper and more impossible to bridge
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The fact that there are no longer one but two public spheres, with very little overlap, and that one of them has become unglued from contact with reality is the great political crisis of our time, because the only way to fix it is to get the now unreachable people to vote for you
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I used to think that some outside event might intervene, and reset the situation. But one lesson of covid that I don't think was sufficiently absorbed was that even direct physical danger—hundreds of thousands dead—was not enough to impose a shared public reality. Very scary.
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As opposed to what? It has been, and still is, the only viable path to power for Democrats.
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