How are cable news and social media so polarizing when only a minority of the electorate view them?

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Since the 90s the outrageous and confrontational have come to occupy a very large part of a media that is increasingly structured towards presenting what’s loud and divisive. Social media and cable news is led by characters who appeal to particular identities often through mocking and demeaning the identity of others…