‘The juice is worth the squeeze’: Mansfield Center lecturer hopes to wring out depolarization in the U.S.

Party lines in today’s United States are being drawn further and further away from each other, causing citizens to choose between the Republican party or Democratic party to avoid being swept off into the “no-man’s land” of neutrality.

“Our current predicament should serve as a stark reminder that constitutional democracy does not run on autopilot. Maintaining healthy democracy requires constant work,” Robert Saldin, director of the Mansfield Center’s Ethics and Public Affairs Program and professor of political science at UM said. “The juice is worth the squeeze.”

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