We will step back from the relentless polls and punditry to reflect on the historic challenges of the upcoming elections. Our politics have gone viral as we have entered a postfactual era in which liberal democracy has been reduced to a partisan punchline. We will examine the history of presidential politics to reflect on the impact of the internet, the coming of the new majority, and liberal and conservative worldviews. Those changes have brought us to a point where we cannot hear opposing views. Such points are where democracy often ends, but also where its ends can be reimagined. We will explore those potentials in our discussions of the opposing partisan coalitions, the positions they have staked out, and the possibilities of renewing our shared potentials.

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