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The Virus of Covid Tribalism

A leading killer of nuance

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Mark Alan Smith
Mar 14, 2022
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Imagine yourself at the beginning of 2020. Your crystal ball goes dark shortly after revealing that a pandemic will soon reach American shores. You thus must predict on your own the political alignments that will develop. Given how familiar Covid-related positions and arguments became in the subsequent two years, you might think you would have seen them…

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Mark Alan Smith
Professor of Political Science and an Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion and Communication at the University of Washington. Author of numerous books, including "Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics."
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