Michael Barone: Both parties’ extremists seem determined to lose the next elections

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Almost no one disagrees that our two political parties, the oldest and third oldest in the world, have become increasingly extreme and estranged over the last decade. It’s a startling contrast with the state of political conflict in the dozen or so years after the fall of the Soviet empire.

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