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The long-term, foundational structure of power, ideology, and public sentiment in a polity. It's the underlying baseline that determines what is politically possible. Are we in an ice age of authoritarianism, or a warm period of democratic expansion? Is the political climate "arid" for progressive ideas, or "fertile" for populism? Shifts in political climate happen slowly, over decades or generations, and define the era far more than any single election.
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