There is a fact of our political discourse so agreed upon that nobody thinks to question it: affective polarization\u2026democrats and republicans disliking each other...has been getting worse, much worse. But what if that belief is actually based on polls measuring the wrong thing?\n\nThat\u2019s the argument made by Northwestern Political Scientist James Druckman in his paper \u201cWhat Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization?\u201d