Americans are busy. The only reliable way to get attention is to be pithy and controversial. This is how politics on both sides has been working for the last

Americans are busy. The only reliable way to get attention is to be pithy and controversial. This is how politics on both sides has been working for the last 30 years. They do it because the other side is fighting the same dirty way, and if they don’t respond in kind, they will lose something they value.