"Normally this is the kind of rift national leaders can help bridge, invoking the usual formulas about our shared values and history of inclusion. For the past two years, however, we've had a president with a gift for intuiting fault lines and prying them open with a crowbar. Who would have imagined, before Donald Trump, that Republicans would be boycotting the NFL? That buying sneakers would seem like a political decision? That 'free speech' would become a kind of code for owning the libs?"
Stephen Heuser at Politico introduces a "Culture War Issue."
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