“So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more – indeed, we’ve come to like the parties we vote for less – but because we came to dislike the opposing party more. Even as hope and change sputter, fear and loathing proceed.”

“So here, then, is the last fifty years of American politics summarized: we became more consistent in the party we vote for not because we came to like our party more – indeed, we’ve come to like the parties we vote for less – but because we came to dislike the opposing party more. Even as hope and change sputter, fear and loathing proceed.”

— Ezra Klein