![]() ![]() From the perspective of the historian, this is not a necessarily persuasive way of thinking about things. If they have quibbles with their own side, partisans are sure about one thing: Evil is on the other side. Hatred of the Other and fear of being misidentified as a member of the opposite clique form the basis of our warring political cultures. Everything passes through the filter of partisan allegiance, not just how you vote and what you watch and read but who you know, where you live, where you shop, what you say. ![]() T here are not one but two Americas, or so we are told: Biden voters and Trump voters, city-dwellers and rural Americans, vaccine enthusiasts and anti-vaxxers, MSNBC habitués and Fox News loyalists, BLM cheerers-on and MAGA advocates-and, of course, blue states and red states. ![]()
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