Sublime

Hypercharged tribalism happens when a concentrated tribal divide reaches such intensity that it resembles a religious war, subsuming the entire society and the people within it. Hypercharged tribalism turns thinking, feeling human beings into loyal colony ants, overriding their intellect, their humanity, even their love of family and friends. It’s

by the end of the 1970s conservative nonprofits had achieved power that was almost unthinkable when the League to Save Carthage first formed. Enormously wealthy right-wing donors had transformed themselves from the ridiculed, self-serving “economic royalists” of FDR’s day into the respected “other side” of a two-sided debate.

The new legislature moved from dealing with minor fiscal issues to tackling much larger questions about the church’s power and the monarchy’s future. As discussions grew more intense, seating division by class and region gave way to a more spontaneous arrangement, with people sitting next to those with whom they agreed—ideological clusters. On