![]() But, according to Fiorina, even this relationship “weakens rapidly as one moves beyond the political class to the larger electorate.” It is this polarized political class, according to Fiorina, that is responsible for gridlock in Washington and for the failure to address what he views as the main threats to America’s future: debt and “the specter of rampant inflation.”Īccording to Fiorina, ordinary Americans today are no more polarized than they were thirty or forty years ago, although they are better “sorted.” That is, there is a stronger relationship now between party affiliation and ideology than there was then. The central argument of the essay as well as the earlier books is that polarization in the United States is limited to a “political class” made up of elected officials and a very small group of activists. In his essay, “America’s Missing Moderates: Hiding in Plain Sight”, Morris Fiorina reprises many of the claims that he and his co-authors have made in books such as Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, and Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics. America’s Polarized Public: A Reply to Fiorina ![]()
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