Escalate coming out of that terrible summer, George Floyd and the pandemic and everything else. And what they found was that One of the things that can deescalate, and especially, interestingly enough, people's thoughts towards political violence were having politicians on stage together or on camera together talking about how disagreed without hating each other. And so that is powerful. They found that there was a measurable drop in that polarization again and thoughts of violence towards the other side. (55:13–55:29)
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Asserts that having politicians discuss disagreements civilly can reduce thoughts of political violence.
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