[DoodleBob]

The author and his article are like Pravda..lies sprinkled with some truths to make it smell like news.

In the summer of 2016, John Hawkins said If Donald Trump Is the Nominee, Hillary Clinton Has Already Won in November..

In this new article, notice how he simultaneously supports the Second Amendment yet says twaddle like The Right has gotten much more tribal since Donald Trump rose to prominence. What? Who's side are you on, dude?

His Lack of Shared Culture issue sounds more like Reichskanzler Hawkins misses the days when Nationa Review and New Republic had a monopoly on political opinion.

Call me Pollyanna but I too am hopeful for the future. The economy is doing well, Deplorables are in the ascendency and Trump got elected and is MAGAing all the time. In contrast, if this jackwagon had his way, we'd have NO Second Amendment guarantees but at least we'd have a shared culture under Hillary and NR would have more hits than Breitbart.

[PeterPrinciple]

The average conservative and the average liberal disagree on 95% of the issues and in the few limited cases where they do look at things the same, they won’t support a proposal by the other out of sheer tribalism.

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Your comments on the author may be true, but many here on FR thought the same about Trump winning. In your reference to the above article, can’t say I disagree with the statement.

[wardaddy]

Good post

I don’t buy this version of tribalism

I lived in west Africa

That’s tribalism

Shared ethnicity race and creed and religion and ancestry....inherent stuff

This guy thinks shared values and social interests is tribalism