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When political differences change close friendships

My best friend and I used to debate everything intensely and it made us both sharper, but since the election we've discovered we're on opposite sides of some fundamental questions and now we're both being polite instead of real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery of deep ideological divides can make intimate friends strangers to each other, replacing authentic engagement with protective distance.

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