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I've read some weird takes about 9/11 already. (startrek.website)
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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I think there's a pretty strong case that the polarization started before 9/11 - Rush Limbaugh, talk radio conservatism, and the race for evangelicals had been making US conservatives more polarized since the 1980s. The attacks might have made it more apparent, but commentators were decrying polarization in the 1990s.