"Most people don’t care about politics. They’re not running around with these preformed opinions in their head. They worry about what they’ll make for dinner and how to get their kids to bed. And that hasn’t changed. For us, that’s an alien world. We think about politics all the time. But we’re not normal. The 24-hour news cycle has not really affected the average American who isn’t into politics. And that’s really important to remember."
— Lynn Vavreck, a political scientist at UCLA, in an interview with Ezra Klein about ” the tornado of idiocy that is American politics.” (via theatlantic)
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