Drawing on their popular class, Princeton University history professors Julian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse, co-authors of Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019), trace the roots of today's political polarization to 1974.
"A college freshman today was born around 9/11... they came of age in an era during a stark political polarization… it wasn’t always this way and there was a conscious set of choices that led us here," says @KevinMKruse, professor at Princeton and author of "Fault Lines."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 22, 2019
"Now it’s just out in the open and it’s front and center in terms of how it’s used by this administration." 2/2 https://t.co/d6n4xhitGA
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) January 22, 2019