“The drive to tune out opposing ideas can be explained by psychology's principles of selective exposure theory and confirmation bias, both being impulses people use to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the stress that occurs when an individual is confronted with… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Attribution bias explains, at least in part, how long-held divisions in politics continue to propagate. It states that rival groups, whether Democrats and Republicans, or Israelis and Palestinians, or so on and so forth, attribute the actions of their adversaries… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Bernie was their last chance. A politician who came so very close to the nomination and the levers of power that he gave them… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“when Clinton strode on stage after a playlist of millennial pop songs—“Happy,” “Stronger,” “Best Day of My Life,” and Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” which… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Trump’s true talent was finding the pulse of these ignorant, livid people and playing them like a virtuoso strumming an instrument.” — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“It was then, in that cramped theater, that I suddenly realized how little difference there was between the far far right and the far… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Sanders was unequivocal. A Donald Trump presidency was too dangerous a concept for third-party politics or protest votes. Earlier in the day, he’d sent… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Trump’s candidacy was the media gift that kept giving, and the more outrageous he became the better the payday for networks.” — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“The most frightening part of the confusion, however, was the uncertainty as to whether it was the result of a man trying frantically to… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Like Newt Gingrich shifting the focus from local to national, social media has transformed politics from the public to the personal. Whereas, in the… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Each one, on the surface, seemed like a bizarre pick, but a pattern soon emerged and it became obvious that Trump and his team… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“At the forum, Trump was the walking, talking embodiment of the cable news show, a rambling, bombastic blowhard who said nothing at all but… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“In an effort to grow an ungrowable product, corporations try to be all things to all people. And once they reach that point, they… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“They wanted a single-payer system. A total nationalizing of the health-care industry. Most of all, they wanted Pelosi and Reid and Obama to quit… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“Convinced I’d fabricated the entire story, they wanted to know How come you don’t have any videos? No photos? Where’s your proof? They demanded… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
