I don't think you guys clicked on the first ft link? It's not paywalled. A transcript where the ft interviewer wonders if the author of Antifa Econs isn't holding the wealthy to account enough..

By comparison, I just checked Guardian, and it's all lifestyle and identity politics.

What I was insinuating above was that votes can be a way for people on either (and sometimes on the same) side of an ideological divide to avoid having conversations.

Now that the midterms are over, Republicans are already pandering to the "support base" of those across the aisle. While the elects themselves are celebrating (too early, and for the wrong reasons, imho-- roughly that people hated Trump)

>“What passes for political discourse these days consists of either narrow, managerial, technocratic talk, which inspires no one, or, when passion does enter, we have shouting matches — highly partisan, often bitter shouting matches where politicians and elected officials and citizens are shouting past one another rather than engaging seriously with the big, ethical questions, questions about justice and the common good that should be at stake in democratic public discourse,” said Sandel.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/01/making-a-case...