i think the more i'm involved in this sort of escalating american culture war, the more convinced i am that extremism breeds competing extremes. So let us not go with who started it, ok? Le, let's leave the who started a on to the side, because s this is the you get, you get side trackd on that. But the fact of the matter is,Americans are moving apart ideologically at a pretty rapid pace. A lot of views that were once fringe are now main stream, or more main stream. And there is enormous temptation, when you are confronted with extremism, to respond with an extreme There's ajeston,. Because an extremism is seen as a