Something I’ve been thinking about for the past several years but that I’ve been fully brooding about since the election (and the attendant flurry of takes about “polarization”) is this: when and under what circumstances is it possible to be friends (or lovers, for that matter) with someone with whom you have vehement political or moral disagreements? (There is now a whole discourse about whether right-leaning men and left-leaning women can love each other, Lord help us.)
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