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When confronted by wrongdoing in his own tribe, the normal partisan indignantly turns to the media and to their fellow citizens and demands, “Don’t judge us by the crazy few.” And then, just as indignantly, he looks at the worst actors from across the aisle and says, “Look at what your ideas cause. Look at what they’re really like. The mask has slipped.”
Our nation’s angriest culture warriors need to know the cost of their conflict. As they seek to crush their political and cultural enemies, they may destroy the nation they seek to rule.
There is a need for a better American political class. But for now, there is little apparent demand. Those who care the most often hate the most, and one of their chief methods of discrediting ideological allies with whom they compete is by portraying them as too tolerant of the hated political enemy.
