Pietro S. Nivola argues that social conflicts and partisan strife in the United States today
a. are more intense than perhaps at any time in American political history.
b. pale in comparison with much of the nation’s past.
c. are more clearly sectional in nature than at any time in the nation’s past.
d. are more ideological in nature than at any time in the nation’s past.
b. pale in comparison with much of the nation’s past.
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