Michael Beschloss - The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

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There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

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Joseph Addison

There cannot be a greater Judgment befall a Country than such a dreadful Spirit of Division as rends a Government into two distinct People, and makes them greater Strangers and more adverse to one another, than if they were actually two different Nations.

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Washington DC has become an evidence-free zone.

Adam Ferguson

We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

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The tone is toxic here in Washington and we are exporting it around the country.

Gordon S. Wood

Jefferson, Madison and Washington could not survive in today’s political environment.

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We've become so polarized we've become paralyzed.

John Hickenlooper

Partisanship has gotten worse and worse.

P. J. O'Rourke

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

Mitch McConnell

What I have said is, when the American people elect divided government, what are they saying? I think they're saying we know you have differences of opinion on big things.