What Would We Do Without Him?

I can think of lots of people to blame for the current polarization, but that’s not the point. ~David Ignatius

That’s right.  We wouldn’t want to find out who is responsible for the current state of affairs, since that would entail making criticisms of the responsible people, which could be divisive and offensive to someone (especially those being criticised).  Having discovered the responsible party, you might get carried away and start proposing alternatives, and before you know it you might start organising with people who agreed with your alternatives to…implement them!  If we go down that road, we might as well just surrender to the jihadis now, since we can’t possibly operate an adversarial representative government and combat jihadism at the same time.  Thank goodness we have Ignatius to save us from partisanship, which is surely a fate worse than death.