The obligatory (but sincere) first: Your blog is on my very short “must read” list every day for your humane criticism of those who hold contrary views.

I’m one of those who thinks that tribalism explains a lot, if not everything in our current coarsened and extremely polarized political climate. And it explains this, too. Forgive me for saying so, but contemporary liberalism is nothing if not the triumph of faith over experience. Who, in looking upon the devastation that is Detroit, can take away from it, “Let’s do more of the same”? Liberals can. Because they’re not going to admit the error of their judgment to their rival tribe. Yes, I know there are those in the Liberal trible who aren’t concerned at all with philosophical questions of truth; their cynicism tells them to do what they do to keep power. Still …
I’m thinking right now of the monoliths on Easter Island.