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Locke’s Donald Bryson analyzes Carolina Journal polling on political violence, polarization

Donald Bryson, John Locke Foundation CEO and Carolina Journal publisher, discusses key items in the latest Carolina Journal Poll. Bryson offered these comments during the Sept. 19, 2025, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”

Donald Bryson
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Putting rightward nature of political polarization to rest 

Partisan polarization has been a fixture of American politics for several decades now.  Recently, analysts have argued it’s asymmetric. To be sure, Democrats have moved to the left. But they have not drifted from the middle ground as much as Republicans have to the right.    Political scientists offer several explanations. Republican lawmakers tend to...

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