How Did Our Politics Get This Broken?

Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News, September 27, 2019

“What most people can feel in the air — that we have never been more politically divided — is confirmed by the empirical evidence and will be on full display in the coming weeks. What began as a small climb up the rock of polarization has turned into a sheer and gigantic cliff, and we have never been so high off the ground. The people to look for are those who offer a rope for gently lowering back down, not those who beckon us to come higher still.”