We’re being worn down by a politics of persistent comfort.I wrote last week about comfort and discomfort, and the pleasure that follows hardship. But I didn’t quite finish the thought, so here it is: Our dismal, empty, destructive political theater is the result of too much ease and affluence. We’re doing things that people do when life has been too easy.When do Americans lose patience for the endless march of idiocy, and what happens when they do? Americans seem to forget how much political... Read this story
