The Capitol fiasco was the apotheosis of the Hate Inc. era, revealing a country driven to literal combat over frustrations accrued in separate factual universes. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell—himself an notorious double-talker and avoider-of-truths—accurately summed us up as a country just before the fracas. We are, he said: Drifting apart into two separate tribes, with a separate set of facts and separate realities, with nothing in common except our hostility towards each other and mistrust for the few national institutions that we all still share.
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