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The Ezra Klein Show
Ezra Klein described it as a touchstone and one of the most important political books of the last decade, noting that its core thesis argues Americans experience politics through identity rather than policy.
Liliana Mason is a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the 2018 book Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.
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Episode: How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Par...
Ezra Klein described it as a touchstone and one of the most important political books of the last decade, noting that its core thesis argues Americans experience politics through identity rather than policy.
Liliana Mason is a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the 2018 book Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity.
I think this gets to the core thesis of your 2018 book, Uncivil Agreement, which was very, very influential for me, which is that Americans don't experience politics through policy. They experience it through identity.