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Is political polarization worse than it's been in the past?
Is today’s divide uniquely bad? I’ll pull historical and recent measures to check.
Is political polarization worse than in the past? It depends on what you measure and how far back you look.
Short answer: Yes, by almost every modern measure it is worse than it has been in the last 50-70 years, but not necessarily worse than the most divisive periods in American history, like the Civil War era.