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A Bipartisan Backlash....?

I've been thinking about the bipartisan messaging we have been hearing all week long.  There is some strong indications that we are getting ready to hear a backlash to the extreme partisanship that has taken hold of not only Washington, but has infiltrated all of our politics over the last ten or twenty years. The rise of the internet, and the extreme partisan political fights that have taken root from the days of Watergate through to the impeachment of Bill Clinton and on into the Bush years have contributed to this partisan divide. It didn’t help matters when we had the 2000 election debacle with hanging chads and the too close to call Election night and on into the years of Obama and finally the 2016 Election, which was filled with online back and forth bickering and gerrymandered districts and another indecisive win where the popular vote and the Electoral College were out of sync, All of these things were factors that have brought us to this pass. In this atmo