{"id":2000,"date":"2014-06-13T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2014-06-13T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T18:11:41","slug":"asymmetric-partisan-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napervilledemocrats.org\/ntdo\/asymmetric-partisan-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymmetric Partisan Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting piece here<\/a> from Christopher Ingraham on the differences in how liberals\u00a0view conservatives\u00a0and how conservatives\u00a0view liberals. \u00a0Here’s the headline quotation:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The\u00a0super-sized Pew Research Center poll<\/a>\u00a0out today has a lot of fascinating things to say about our\u00a0polarized politics<\/a>. But it’s also chock-full of goodies on a related but less-talked about driver of our political troubles: partisan\u00a0animosity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Writing over at Monkeycage earlier this year, Sean Theriault\u00a0called the phenomenon<\/a>\u00a0“partisan warfare” and defined it as such:<\/p>\n

The warfare dimension taps into the strategies that go beyond defeating your opponents to humiliating them, go beyond questioning your opponents\u2019 judgment to questioning their motives, and go beyond fighting the good legislative fight to destroying the institution and the legislative process. Partisan warfare serves electoral goals, not legislative goals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Democrats and Republicans can’t reach consensus on the proper role of government in healthcare, that’s partisan polarization. But when Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA)\u00a0says<\/a>\u00a0that “Obamacare is going to destroy everything we know as a nation,” that’s partisan warfare.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, partisan warfare, like polarization, is highly asymmetric. Animosity and ill will are significantly more concentrated at the conservative end of the ideological spectrum. Here are some charts from Pew breaking that down.<\/p>\n

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The entire piece, charts and all, is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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