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After 26-year-old Brandon Fellows stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6,
All the while,
Politics is personal, and that's been
How did we get here?
In a study published in January 2017,
Neil Malhotra, a political science professor at Stanford University, and his co-author Gregory A. Huber concluded that
"It appears as if in the contemporary period political orientations directly affect the social relationships people seek to form, which results in increased political homogeneity in formed relationships," Malhotra and Huber wrote. "This has the potential to amplify polarization through the creation of homogenous social networks and households."