Years ago, I heard Arthur Brooks, then President of the American Enterprise Institute, give a cautionary talk on political polarization. Brooks is a conservative economist raised by two liberal college professors. He described an evening where he joined them for dinner, only to find his mother oddly quiet and subdued. Concerned, he asked if everything was okay. “Arthur, your father and I have been talking,” she sighed. “Well, I’m just going to come out and ask, are…are you voting for Republicans?”
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