The ideal democratic citizen, we learn in high school civics, is engaged and informed, confident in his or her understanding of politics and ready to make a difference. But it’s hard to look at the current political climate — deformed by polarization, saturated with “experts,” overflowing with outrage entrepreneurs — and determine that political intensity, on the left or the right, is what is lacking from American democracy.
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