Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein. Ezra is a journalist, political analyst, and New York Times columnist. He co-founded Vox and formerly served as the website’s editor-at-large.
In addition, he has held editorial positions at The Washington Post and The American Prospect, and was a regular contributor to Bloomberg News and MSNBC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from USC.
Ezra writes extensively about his discovery of America’s toxic political system. In confronting polarization he shows what this increased level will do to American society.
He begins by sharing a simple view of the New Deal coalition created in the 1960s, following party realignments along southern geographic and racial political lines. Much was attributed to white anxiety regarding the the shift in America’s demographics. This is also a fairly straight forward look at bias.
He proves rather insightful in communicating that Trump’s election was not a surprise at all. Yet while both Democrats and Republicans indicated his election was very unprecedented, the GOP won the White House by the exact same tactics used by their party for more than 50 years.