Loyalists, Populists, Optimists … American Politics Doesn’t Have 2 Camps. It Has 8.

By Kristen Soltis Anderson

Ms. Anderson, a contributing Opinion writer, is a Republican pollster and a moderator of Opinion’s series of focus groups.

It might seem like ancient history, but Chris Rock was onto something when he riffed about Iraq war-era politics in his 2004 stand-up special, “Never Scared.” He noted that, like most people, “I got some stuff I’m conservative about; I got some stuff I’m liberal about.”

I swapped........

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