Alan We. Abramowitz has surfaced as a leading spokesman for the look at our current political divide isn’t confined to a small band of elites and activists but an integral feature from the American public and cultural landscape. The polarization from the political and press elites, he argues, arose and persists because it accurately demonstrates the state of American society. Here, he will go further: the polarization is unique in contemporary U.S. background. Today’s party separate displays an unprecedented alignment of several different divides: racial and cultural, religious, ideological, and geographic.

Abramowitz shows how the partisan positioning arose from the breakup from the aged New Offer coalition; introduces the most important difference between our current era and past eras, the rise of ‘negative partisanship’; points out how this phenomenon paved the way for the Trump presidency; and examines why our polarization could even grow deeper. This statistically based analysis shows that racial anxiety is definitely by far an improved predictor of support for Donald Trump than every other factor, including economic discontent.