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2016 Election Cynicism and Partisan Extremes
from Sex Slaves and Assassins (with Nick Bryant) · #17
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2 minTim discusses how the 2016 election cycle has become uniquely toxic compared to past elections like Bush v. Gore, with extreme voices dominating both parties.
- 2:10Tim traces his political awareness back to the 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
- 2:32Since 2000, each election cycle has seen people become increasingly cynical about politics.
- 2:45The extremes on both sides—Republican, Democrat, libertarian, socialist, Green Party—have grabbed the spotlight in a way that dominates discourse.
- 3:12This election cycle is more broken than any previous one Tim has witnessed.
- 3:25Some believed Trump's polarizing effect would be offset by Republicans defecting to vote for Hillary Clinton, potentially healing partisan divisions.
- 3:57A comedian doing a pro-Trump joke at a Halloween show in the East Village got such a hostile reaction that his entire set was ruined.