The linked Medium story, insofar as I got reading it, is dishonest.

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There are fewer moderates than ever in the Republican Congress.


While this is clearly a problem, attribution or cause of this problem isn't clear. The implication here is that it is GOP's fault that polarization happens. There are good theories that blame GOP (e.g. gerrymandering leading to polarization) and there are good theories that blame other factors (e.g. social media is a radicalization engine).

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Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has thrown out the rule book to undermine healthcare


This is hysterics not based in reality. McConnell hasn't done anything on healthcare that wasn't first done to pass ACA. If you believe otherwise, please provide citations and links.

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and steal a Supreme Court seat.


This is very true, appointment should have been Obama's. No idea why this wasn't a much bigger deal.

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The United States is the only country with a major political party that denies the scientific reality of climate change.


Unjustifiable generalization.

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Republican state legislatures are attacking people’s voting rights instead of trying to win their support.


This is true, but now there is conflation of state and federal branches. If this is the standard, how about holding Democratic party responsible for actions, for example, of California state legislature?

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And right wing media routinely promotes conspiracy theories, from questioning Barack Obama’s citizenship to suggesting that the Parkland student activists are “crisis actors.”


Again, intentionally ambiguous definition of media. While Fox is horrible, conspiracy theories are more feature of Facebook groups and fringe sites. If you apply the same standard, then Greenpeace and Jezebel should be considered a left wing media and Democrats should be held accountable for their views.

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Taking a political position is a cheap form of political action. But a lot of our thinking about politics is grounded in the idea that positions are more important than what political actors actually do to build and use power.


How and why was this not also applied as a criticism of Democrats?


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