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Some fascinating new data from Pew Research and Illustrated by the Wall Street Journal,

let's go and put this up there on the screen.

Why tribalism took over our politics?

The focus of the piece really comes down to some Pew data about the share of those in

each party who view the other party very unfavorably and part of how everything has really

changed from the 90s in terms of division and how even if we felt divided at that time

it's really child's play to where we are right now.

Let's put this up there on the screen, this image which is very important.

What you can see is that the share of those in each party who view the other very unfavorably

are at all time highs in both parties.

So in 1994, the share of those who saw the other side is very unfavorably was 21% for

Republicans, 17% for Democrats.

There wasn't spike actually in the late 90s largely during the impeachment scandal where

the Democrats were pretty high, but nowhere even close to where we are right now.

You can see that 2008 was actually a major jump off point for both parties where the

share began to rise and pretty much equalized around 40% and we now stand at the most divided

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