A few years back when I read Christopher Hedges’ “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning” - which is about the war spirit that envelops and takes over societies in a war - I immediately thought of politics, where something similar happens. 1/
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1328557110418935809
Most anyone who has worked on a campaign has at some point experienced a version of this - where you come to believe that your opponent is capable of anything. Stealing yard signs, violating norms, etc. 2/
Worse, in that war-like moment, it’s easy to get lulled into conspiracy theories. And it’s easy to get pulled into really hating the other side. 3/
But the magnitude of what is happening to some of the people involved with the Trump campaign seems to take all that and go to another level. 4/
Now, I know that there are those who say that no, no, they are merely being disingenuous and should know better. But it feels like more than that - that some people - including people who by all accounts are competent professionals - have drifted to a seriously bad place. 5/
And that’s scary. Because in the normal world - say, a hotly contested primary fight - there eventually comes a reset. But I worry that in our world, which is being polarized for other reasons, that reset, that pause may be really hard to achieve. 6/
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