The site isn’t going to mean anything unless people in power use it for their decisions about policy. I sometimes think that half the reason political polariza

The site isn’t going to mean anything unless people in power use it for their decisions about policy. I sometimes think that half the reason political polarization has gotten so bad is that politicians aren’t citing the same data. One lobbying group can provide one dataset, and that’ll get picked up by Democrats to support their idea. Another lobbying group will provide another dataset, and that’ll get used by Republicans for their counterarguments. If this site could become the definitive source of data—the one that both sides of the aisle trust—there’d be a common data source in policy talks. That could lead to consensus much quicker.