How to Debate a Populist
In the 1960s, much like today, people with opposing viewpoints struggled to communicate with one another. Yet there was a civility to that era's public debate that is nowhere to be found today, owing to liberal elites' understanding that refusing to engage would only reinforce the “us versus them” mentality that fuels radicalism.
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BERLIN – In many Western countries today, social and political divisions have widened to the point that attempting to bridge them seems futile. Yet one might have believed the same thing in the 1960s, an era at least as conflicted as ours. And yet those divisions were ultimately overcome. The difference was the discourse.