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LessAspin

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Tue Nov 12, 2024, 05:01 PM Nov 2024

COVID Dissonance [View all]



What's especially concerning is that public opinion generally tracked economic conditions until COVID and now it is completely decoupled. Thus, most of the explanations that we would default to - partisan media, polarization, etc. - don't work because they predate the divergence by a significant margin. Maybe COVID just broke our brains.
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