Politics as team sports
7 min readMay 17, 2021
Politics as practiced in the United States broadly has the character of team sports in which Democratic and Republican voters show concern more for the letter that appears in parentheses after a politician’s name than about policy.This claim will shock many readers on the first pass, but consider the attitudes found in promotions of #MAGA, despite its nebulous definitions that depended on whatever Trump might say from minute to minute, or in the…