Republicans' most toxic policy commitment

Many of what we think of as hot-topic political divides today only became that way over the past 30 years. As recently as the mid-‘90s, for example, people from the two parties polled about equal in their support for legalized abortion.⬥39 It’s a similar story with the push for stricter gun laws, which was supported by parties in the early ‘90s (83

This is how I feel when I interact with members of the Alt-Right. Some of them are irredeemable, horrible people. Yet, in my view, to be defined by one’s ideology is already “problematic.” To be unable to associate with those you disagree with (within limits), to think there is an absolute correlation between one’s politics and one’s character, is

Some commentators point out that conservatives vote against their economic interests. What they miss is that those conservatives are voting their moral interests, and they will continue to do so. Therefore liberals need to understand the difference between policy and morality and that morality beats policy.

Beginning in the 1980s, for reasons I have not been able to completely divine, we took a sharp turn away from practicality and toward ideology. The partisan divide gradually became a chasm, compromise a dirty word. Increasingly our political debate has devolved into sound bites and slogans as the two major political parties’ platforms have ignored