Category: Political Hate

  • The Dangers of Political Hatred in Democracy

    The Dangers of Political Hatred in Democracy

    America does not suffer from an excess of political disagreement. It suffers from a collapse of civic restraint.  Disagreement is inevitable in a pluralistic democracy. In fact, it is essential. But in recent years, political identity has increasingly become a moral sorting mechanism—one that divides neighbors into abstractions and encourages citizens to interpret disagreement as…