It's because this law doesn't apply to politics. The dynamics of our squishy human brains and its reliance on heuristics and in-group/out-group identities resul

It's because this law doesn't apply to politics. The dynamics of our squishy human brains and its reliance on heuristics and in-group/out-group identities result in an inverse Hotellings law where in a political contest with two competitors, they will move farther apart so as to better differentiate the groups and define their boundaries.