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Not enough disagreement in the transcripts to form camps. These are the positions taken by people with demonstrated expertise on this topic first, then by how many people heard them on it, then by VoiceRank.

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A functioning democracy relies on popular opinion, which is shaped by the stories political figures tell to create a sense of popular consensus.

“in a democracy what matters almost more than anything else is popular opinion and the way you shape popular opinion is in part by giving people a story that they want to believe in and in part by making them feel as if they are part of a crowd”

Heather Cox Richardson · Sep 2023 · 1 episode · 51K views on this topic

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