We spend a lot of time talking about the problem of polarization in today’s politics. If you get right down to it, however, most of that happens, well, at the fringes — either end of the pole, if you will.

What’s more normal, in our experience, is for the average American to question whether either political party cares about regular people at all.

Recent polling bears that out, and is particularly unfavorable for Democrats.

The Searchlight Institute asked Americans which political party they believe wants them to have certain hallmarks of a good life — things such as wealth, marriage and kids. On every measure but one — “feeling stable in your personal life” — more respondents chose Republicans. Yet on no issue did a majority of Americans believe either party genuinely wants those outc

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