trump-style candidates elected from safe seats. >> the fringes get rewarded, and there is no incentive to compromise because all you got to do is appease the base who helped you win a primary because you're in a noncompetitive district. david, that was excellent. so glad to have you here tonight. >> thanks a lot, michael. what are your thoughts? reach out to be on social media. at the end of the program -- oh, we got one more. centrists are unable to win the primary, so our elected officials are more polarized. amen to that. there was something important that david just brought out. gerrymandering gets the attention, right? that's when the boundary lines every ten years based on the census are manipulated to suit one political party or the other. that's only half the dynamic. did you hear him also discuss self-sorting? more and more we are living among the like-minded. you know what's on the rise? blowout counties in this