(03-13-2022 08:22 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Incredibly timely study that I just saw. Would be interested to dive deeper into how these liberal/conservative metrics were calculated.

Quote: Both parties have grown more ideologically cohesive. There are now only about two dozen moderate Democrats and Republicans left on Capitol Hill, versus more than 160 in 1971-72.

Both parties have moved further away from the ideological center since the early 1970s. Democrats on average have become somewhat more liberal, while Republicans on average have become much more conservative.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20...k-decades/

In those days of yore, there existed something known as a "conservative Democrat".

Now extinct.