“The average Gen-Z female is now 30 percentage points more liberal than the average Gen-Z male. Moreover, males are 13 percentage points more likely than females to say religion is ‘very important’ in their lives.” - TGC
“We live in a culture where we are relatively isolated, and it’s easy to create an online bubble around me of people who think like me. It’s not easy to intentionally move out of that bubble and to listen to viewpoints you disagree with. But I think now more than ever we need to do that.” - P&D
“for all of our polarization, both sides are acting in exactly the same way. The ‘binary’ (as they say) of oppressed and oppressor that the critical theorists keep invoking is also how many of us conservatives have been interpreting just about everything. We differ on who is doing the oppressing, but we all think we are oppressed.” - Gene Veith
“Despite our current cultural and political climate, it’s also true that we have faced significant division before and emerged intact on the other side. Without oversimplifying our unique challenges in the present, we can learn a great deal from the man who led our nation through the turbulent events of the Civil War.” - Providence
“When looking at partisanship and ideology together, conservative Republicans are the group most likely to say they come across inaccurate news: 53% say this happens extremely often or often.” - Pew
“One party’s freedom of speech is another party’s disinformation and hate speech. Until it isn’t. Repeat.” - Acton
“It’s this lack of belief in the good, true, and beautiful that leads us down the paths of perpetual power struggle, to thirsting for nothing beyond the will to power, and to a dark abyss. We must not lose sight of that as we search for answers to what ails us.” - Dispatch Faith
2024: 47% of Republicans/Republican-leaning “said they were extremely or very concerned about restrictions on press freedoms.” Democrats /Democratic-leaning:38%. Today:Democrats (60%), Republicans (28%). - Pew
“The event was a rare glimpse into the lives of presidents away from politics.” - TAC
“If we truly love our neighbors… how can we not work to shape the policies that affect our neighbor’s flourishing? And yet, there is a temptation in this age toward partisanship that goes beyond mere civic action, a totalizing approach that becomes less about stewarding citizenship and more about an all-encompassing social identity.” - Daniel Darling
