Is American politics too contentious?

This week, Julia, Lee, and James work through America’s love-hate relationship with political conflict. How much conflict can our institutions handle? Have we already reached that point? Or are the disagreements in our nation’s capital merely the result of a legitimate opposition doing its job? How do we tell the difference between good conflict and bad conflict? These are some of the questions they tackle in this episode.

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Show Notes

Lee contends that democracy breaks down when politics polarizes and cites How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt to support his claim.

Julia references Presidential Greatness by Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis.

Julia also cites a piece she wrote on impeachment that first appeared at Mischiefs of Faction in November 2019.