Today's all-time high in partisanship means that scandals don't hurt politicians nearly as much as they should.

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Why scandals don’t add up to damage candidates - Niskanen Center

The rise of nationalized polarized campaigns has meant that scandals no longer hurt at the ballot box.

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@niskanen The language of "partisanship" and "polarization" continue to miss the point that political ideology is not binary and the left vs right linear model is garbage.

The contemporary GOP is not a legitimate political party engaged in participatory democracy, but rather is a loose coalition of Christofascists, ethical egoists cosplaying as principled libertarians, and corporate stooge kleptocrats. All essentially anti-democratic, and none with a reality based theory of change.