Politics

How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure for polarization

THE ANSWER

Polarization is now only going to get worse? The only real answer? Localism. Let Birmingham be Birmingham and Berkeley be Berkeley.

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The ever worsening polarization of American politics—demonstrated and accentuated by the Trump victory—is now an undeniable fact of our daily life. Yet rather than allowing the guilty national parties to continue indulging political brinkmanship, we should embrace a strong, constitutional solution to accommodating our growing divide: a return to local...

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