> increasing political polarization is due to people making political choices based on more sophisticated ideological alliances and deeper held beliefs The iro

> increasing political polarization is due to people making political choices based on more sophisticated ideological alliances and deeper held beliefs The irony here (ha) is while people are more polarized, actual ideology has almost completely gone away, replaced with vague slogans (MAGA) that don't actually mean anything and are designed to weaponize nostalgia in a way that is useful for particularly amoral politicians. Keep in mind, the GOP literally had no formal platform for 2020, just "we're with Trump" (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/party-no-content/615607/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/party-no-c...)