In that titanic struggle between two warring sets of tribes, liberalism was simply an afterthought. One by one, its principles were made irrelevant by a new political culture. There could be no compromise. There could be no step-by-step decision making, or reason, or objectivity. There could be no individuals. There was only the group. This was no longer the politics of how to change the world. It was the politics of who you were. And that was a zero-sum game.
