This. The dead horse that I have been beating to death is that while in the 60s the major divide between the parties was economic policy, now it’s social. It wouldn’t surprise me if you could design a survey that asked mostly questions of economic policy while avoiding any “race” dogwhistles it would show that the parties have become MORE similar over time. Things like “Are unions a good thing or a bad thing?” “Should the minimum wage be raised” etc. The problem is that in the past, you could sympathize with people who want more money JUST LIKE YOU DO, and can fairly easily come to a compromise where you split the pie. But social quandries are often much nastier fights because they are MORAL issues and are often VERY difficult to compromise on.
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