[BufordP]

"...I still bristled when she launches in the final part of the book into a diatribe about what our country needs, which is strongly colored with right-wing platitudes and a self-righteous air as well as the tendency to portray liberals as the enemy rather than fellow allies in evolving our country. I would love to see more thoughtful reflections on positions and values, a deeper understanding of history, and less of the combative edge, all of which would make her a more unifying leader (and likely lead to fewer arrows back at her and her family)..."

Mush.

[Mr. Lucky]

...the tendency to to portray liberals as the enemy rather than fellow allies in evolving our country.

It's tough to take seriously a literary critic who doesn't know the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb.