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Conclusion

from Part II - The Democratic First Amendment in the Age of Twitter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Ashutosh Bhagwat
Affiliation:
University of California at Davis School of Law
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American democracy finds itself in a strange place in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, the country suffers from bitter, partisan divisions as reflected in the fact that adults who identify themselves with a political party increasingly demonstrate strong loyalty to their own party, and even stronger distaste for the other party. A 2017 Gallup poll reveals, astonishingly, that large majorities of self-identified Democrats and Republicans strongly prefer that their children marry someone from their political party – while a similar majority support same-sex marriage, and a much larger majority accept interracial marriage.2 At the same time, huge numbers of Americans are utterly disengaged from politics, so much so that they do not even bother to vote.

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  • Conclusion
  • Ashutosh Bhagwat
  • Book: Our Democratic First Amendment
  • Online publication: 28 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676373.009
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  • Conclusion
  • Ashutosh Bhagwat
  • Book: Our Democratic First Amendment
  • Online publication: 28 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676373.009
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  • Conclusion
  • Ashutosh Bhagwat
  • Book: Our Democratic First Amendment
  • Online publication: 28 May 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108676373.009
Available formats
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