@elipariser @WoodardColin's book American Nations (2011) does an excellent job of providing a much more nuanced look into how culture has affected the American flavor of democracy. It might also be a model for how to look at fragmented publics within a social media framing.
Thanks, Chris. Working on a project @pellcenter to deploy some of this knowledge in defense of U.S. liberal democracy. (There's a trilogy now with American Character (2016) and Union (2020).
Colin Woodard, May 17 2022 on twitter.com