The second is that Dems/liberals do NOT inhabit their own bubble of reality. MSNBC has never been a mirror reflection of Fox News for liberals (that is, carefully-curated stories with a hefty dose of fake news), but even if it were, liberals just don’t rely on it as much. It’s the eighth most trusted source, the fourth-most consumed.
There’s a common refrain that partisans live in their own little worlds
and polarization results from equal “epistemic closure.” I think the
view persists because it’s less painful to consider than the plain
reality: that one bloc has removed itself from public dialogue and will
only accept a false version of the news that supports their beliefs.
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