PREVIEW - INTERVIEW: Will Kaback talks with Stephen Hawkins
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 821 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Today, we’re publishing Editor Will Kaback’s conversation with Stephen Hawkins, director of research at More in Common, a nonprofit that researches political polarization and strategies to build more cohesive communities. The group recently published a report that found Republicans and Democrats have vastly different perceptions of what the other side believes, and we talked with Hawkins about what those findings mean for the future of American politics.
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| 1:01.8 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, |
| 1:08.8 | this is Tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the tangle |
| 1:24.7 | a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, |
| 1:29.0 | some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. I am Tangle editor, Will Keeback. I'm jumping on |
| 1:34.8 | the mic today to share a special interview with everyone. And it may be on a topic that you |
| 1:40.1 | weren't quite expecting us to cover at this point in the year. I know the 2024 election is |
| 1:44.5 | somewhat in the rearview mirror, but it's also something that we're still thinking a lot about |
| 1:49.1 | at Tangle. We're thinking about what we learned about the electorate, what the downstream effects |
| 1:54.3 | of the results will be, and really where Democrats go from here. I recently read the results |
| 2:00.8 | of a study that put this last question |
| 2:02.5 | in particular into perspective. I think it's a study that everyone listening to this podcast would |
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