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Topic
Political Polarization
Episodes · 12 months
377
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Jan 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 34 of 3,584, 21 of 3,862, 44 of 4,115, 45 of 4,226, 25 of 4,731, 32 of 4,438, 26 of 4,230, 37 of 4,319, 34 of 4,515, 35 of 4,419, 24 of 4,624, 20 of 4,594.
All time
1,041
+35 via 22 narrower
On record
312
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
4d ago
Nov 9, 2026
Narrower · 22
Who's talking
Top voices on this topicThe eight guests on the most episodes about this topic in the last 13 weeks, not counting their own shows or clips they were only heard in, most episodes first. VoiceRank (their score across the whole corpus) is shown for context and only breaks a tie. Each strip is that guest's episodes week by week, and the newest week is still in progress.
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All shows
Episodes on this topic per week, weeks starting Aug 17 to Nov 9 (the last still in progress): 8, 4, 8, 4, 7, 6, 1, 4, 3, 8, 6, 6, 1.
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp182 people
73%
27%
- Prioritize discourse over division132 people · 73%
- Establish clear moral boundaries50 people · 27%
Prioritize discourse over division
Political polarization is exacerbated by inflammatory media and toxic rhetoric that prevents honest, face-to-face human communication.
132 people · 125 episodes
Comparing political opponents to Nazis or Hitler is inherently dangerous and inflammatory.
“But when people in public life go around publicly calling him Adolf Hitler, who murdered 12 million people, including six million Jews in the Holocaust, young, impressionable, deranged minds may hear that and think the logical assumption is they have to kill these people. And that's why it's so dang”
Destiny · Sep 2025 · 38 episodes · 38.3M views on this topic
Tim Pool92
Media polarization creates a moral worldview that compels people to align with one side and fuels political tension.
“There are uh family members of mine that only watch MS Now and there are family members of mine that only watch Fox News and I watch both. And so then I see, you know, when I turn on MS Now, the only thing they're talking about is going to be in one direction. I turn Fox News, the only thing they're”
Destiny · Aug 2026 · 88 episodes · 21.4M views on this topic
Political polarization is being intensified by legacy media and an inability to have open, honest conversations about shared grievances.
“I sensed some growing discontent or more of a racial divide in America than I'd experienced in my lifetime, and it seemed to be egged on by legacy media.”
StevenCrowder · Oct 2025 · 14 episodes · 16.3M views on this topicEstablish clear moral boundaries
Political conflict is rooted in fundamental disagreements over shared values or the threat posed by radical, anti-democratic actors.
50 people · 48 episodes
He believes that the far-left rhetoric framing political opponents as fascists is a form of incitement to violence.
“You're effectively advocating violence and it's incitement to violence as far as I'm concerned. But because she's on the far left, she's deemed to be a good person, that's somehow okay.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2025 · 35 episodes · 16.4M views on this topic
Collapsing religious language into the political realm creates a dangerous, unsophisticated war of good versus evil.
“if the religious collapses so that you can no longer render unto God what is God's, let's say, because that entire belief system disappears, then maybe the maybe everything that should be attributed to God, so to speak, is now played out in the political realm is that you get a collapse of the relig”
Jordan B Peterson · Oct 2023 · 23 episodes · 14.8M views on this topic
Political activists on both the left and right are currently forming problematic alliances due to shared distrust of authority and paranoia.
“Communists have found very unlikely allies in the conservative movement uh on a handful of issues, on an increasing number of issues.”
Matt Walsh · Jul 2026 · 15 episodes · 3.4M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topic
Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Nov 2016