Should responsibility for the rampant polarization that characterizes American politics today be laid at the feet of liberals or conservatives? …
Recently two columnists who are hardly sympathetic to Trump or Trumpism — far from it — raised questions about whether the right or the left deserves blame or responsibility for the kind of conflicts that now roil elections. Kevin Drum, in “If you hate the culture wars, blame liberals,” and Damon Linker, in “The myth of asymmetric polarization,” make the case that the left has been the aggressor in the culture wars. CONTINUED
Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times