Asymmetric polarization will be the end of this country, I swear.
Is polarization that asymmetric? This gets repeated extremely often on this forum but as far as I can tell it’s just another excuse when Democrats aren’t winning. Democrats won the House vote by 8 in 2018, was that asymmetric polarization from the Republicans harming them? No, it was just the environment shifting. Trump’s approval rating at this point in his presidency was 37%. It’s not that Democrats are being weak by not being partisan enough, it’s that a year into a presidents term is when the base is naturally least involved. That problem affected Trump, but I would wager in January 2024 whoever the Democratic nominee is will have plenty of intra party support.
Yes simply for the fact that Trump with 37% approval resulted in 40 house seats but gaining 3 senate seat but Biden at 37% will result in 50+ House seats and losing 4-5 senate seats
