The authors are political science professors at Stony Brook.
Their point: The biggest divide isn’t by party.
The biggest divided is by involvement in politics.
The most vocal voices from social media, who are amplified by the mainstream media, come from a relatively small group.
Echoing what Dannagal Young had to say in “Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation," the authors talk about 2 sets of relatively small groups of hyper-engaged partisans.
