{"id":11466,"date":"2018-10-22T23:06:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11466"},"modified":"2018-10-22T23:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:06:53","slug":"yes-be-very-worried-over-growing-polarization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/yes-be-very-worried-over-growing-polarization\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Be Very Worried Over Growing Polarization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>My Hoover Institution colleague Morris Fiorina has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/are-we-verge-civil-war-some-words-reassurance\">recently written<\/a>\u00a0that I am unduly pessimistic in my appraisals of a currently divided America. He cited two essays I wrote, one a Tribune Media Services syndicated column, the other a\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em>online essay. Both were published before the recent national hysteria over Judge Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s Supreme Court confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>In those essays, I had indicated that the polarization within the United States is growing ominous. Given relatively new force-multipliers\u2014such as the asymmetrical consequences of globalization, the rise of social media and instant global communications, red-blue-state geographical self-selection, the Obama and Trump presidencies, and massive illegal immigration\u2014I suggested that we may be on a dangerous trajectory. In my view, the resulting escalation could exceed the factional differences that were ultimately resolved peacefully in the 1930s and 1960s, and instead might approach those of 1860\u201361.<\/p>\n<p>Before answering Fiorina\u2019s counter-arguments that I am too gloomy, I first would like to address,\u00a0<em>sine ira et studio<\/em>, a few of his initial assumptions. First, he locates our disagreement in my own supposed role as an \u201cactive combatant in today\u2019s political wars.\u201d And thus, apparently, my \u201cimpressions\u201d should be placed in just that partisan and politicized context. In contrast, Fiorina is self-described as a \u201cdata guy\u201d and a \u201cnoncombatant.\u201d I take that to mean that the disinterested social scientist Fiorina can better assure us of \u201cgrounds for feeling much more sanguine about the state of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/yes-be-very-worried-over-growing-polarization\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution My Hoover Institution colleague Morris Fiorina has\u00a0recently written\u00a0that I am unduly pessimistic in my appraisals of a currently divided America. He cited two essays I wrote, one a Tribune Media Services syndicated column, the other a\u00a0National Reviewonline essay. Both were published before the recent national hysteria over Judge Brett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2YW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11549,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-on-contemporary-american-society\/","url_meta":{"origin":11466,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson On Contemporary American Society","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution Traditional values, whether manifested in public policy or contemporary culture, are besieged in today\u2019s America but can still be found in the right places, says\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson. 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