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The most important divide today in American public life is not between Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and progressives, or liberals and postliberals. It’s between those who see governing as a spectator sport and those in the arena.
The first group—the commentariat—is made up of academics, cable news figures, talk radio hosts, columnists, pundits, political YouTubers, and the like.
Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He writes regularly for his Substack “Governing Right.”
