Political parties ≠ sports teams. Treating them as sports teams--my team rocks, your team sucks--is a big reason we're in this mess. Much worse to switch from Red Sox to Yankees than from Republicans to Democrats. Sports fandom is tribal. Politics is about ideas. Or should be.https://twitter.com/secupp/status/1009432789714956289 …
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Ronald Reagan famously said "I didn't leave the Democratic party. The Democratic party left me." Now the Republican party left. If you like the Trumpified version, support it. But don't support it no matter what it does just because of sports-fan-like team loyalty.
7:20 AM - 20 Jun 2018
from Urbana, IL
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