“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so,” Ronald Reagan once quipped of his political opponents.
For a portion of the Right, this line has served as a guiding principle in its attempt to coexist with the Left. Liberals are not bad people, the rationale goes, nor are they hateful or cruel. They simply know so much that isn’t so. Thus, for a specific segment of the Right, interactions with the Left have followed from this belief, that one is engaging a fellow citizen who is, despite all fierce disagreements, a decent and compassionate person.
The Right may need to consider reevaluating this line of thinking.
Indeed, from the way the Left responds to natural disasters in red states, one gets the sense that they are cruel, that they delight not only in the suffering of their ideological opponents but also in…
