Republicans living in an evidence free world is just not true

[Progressive Pessimist]

Yes a tax she proposed got Amazon to stop expanding in Seattle.

You say that as if Amazon continuing to expand in Seattle is A. Necessarily a good thing and B. the most important thing.

A. It is
B. It is important

75% of republicans live in an evidence-free world. So do 40% of democrats.

80%-90% of all Americans live in an evidence-free world.

Yep, honestly I think to the answer to this is that almost all voters are terrible and don’t care about evidence on most things. I’m not trying to “both-sides” it, but I really doubt that Sanders stans read up on minimum wage empirical literature, or most GOPers read Climage change studies.

So the Democrat party has been better in recent years (especially post-Dubya) mostly just because the establishment has been more in charge, and so has been more ingrained with academia and scientific consensus, as opposed to the full-populist GOP (since around 2009).

That's a pretty fair way to look at it. And honestly, I agree. That's partly why I think "populism" is dangerous, on both sides of the political spectrum.