It's not the data, it's the low-effort interpretations and conclusions. John Timmer: "What's behind these changes? The single biggest factor appears to be neg

It's not the data, it's the low-effort interpretations and conclusions. John Timmer: "What's behind these changes? The single biggest factor appears to be negative partisanship combined with the election of Joe Biden." ZeroGravitas: "No, it's the children who are wrong, Fox News tells me constantly, making me fear for the future". Behind Trump's blowhard tactics and lies, just perhaps it's worth seeing why there's pushback from the conservative and rural citizens. Perhaps it really is just oil executives. Or perhaps there are some genuine concerns that we've missed. The latter, of course, takes extra level of effort and only matters if you view people in the other political party as...actual people and not "the enemy" or "idiots in fly over country" (those quotes aren't yours, but things I've overheard verbatim in years past).