Yglesias says what needs to be said about Andrew Sullivan's meditation on Marc Bloch:But on top of that, though there clearly is a sense in which current American politics is very polarized, there's another sense in which our levels of polarization are almost trivial compared...
democracy
...or so Peter Baker would have you believe. That's not quite fair to Baker, but it's not far off, either. Baker allows that slashed budgets and "unforeseen" events have wounded.