The kindness of strangers

I’ve been playing in the public arenas of politics and commentary, of columns and television and campaigns, for long enough not to pretend that it was all warm and fuzzy back then. It was mean and sometimes scary. But mostly not. Even during the “hottest” times, we mostly managed to separate the professional from the personal. We disagreed; we fought, even. But hate was the exception. And that has changed. The internet is a cesspool of vicious diatribes and personal assaults. That is the nature of discourse. Republican influencers slash at each other, much less at those they oppose, who... Article Link