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Is political polarization worse than it's been in the past?
To answer whether political polarization is worse than in the past, political scientists and historians generally divide the comparison into two baselines: modern history (the last 50 to 70 years) and deep history (going back to the founding of the United States).
The consensus is that while we are not in a state of literal armed conflict like the American Civil War, political polarization today