Robb Willer, director of the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University, is here to discuss his "Strengthening Democracy" mega-study, which looks at effective ways to reduce anti-democratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Plus, the red-wave doubters—the most straight forward theory of political success. That's the theory: whoever's the most straight forward has the most political success.

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