Are Americans getting angry and is that anger driving a polarization of the electorate?
The Angry American by Paul Starobin suggests that we are getting angry (conservative anger towards Clinton, anger towards Bush) but that this is good and shows we aren’t cynical. A cute point, but he doesn’t deal with the problems of anger politics – the willingness to contemplate any means to achieve an unexamined end. The partisan politics and willingness to spend too much on politics.