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See but you're thinking like a statesman and not like a mere pundit.Why? Should credit not be given where credit is due? Why can't you hate the libs for all the reasons they deserve hate (and there are many) and simultaneously praise the for any good ideas? Politics doesn't have to be a zero sum game.
Identity politics is a blight on democracy, in that it removes the critical thinking component and creates a mindless drone out of the voter.
"I hate Team X because Team Y is my team" is best left for hockey or baseball, not politics. I have voted Red, Blue, and Orange at all levels based on the issues I saw as important. But to Team Blue I'm a "woke-snowflake" and to Team Or"Red"nge I'm a fascist bootlicker.
I think Lord Palmerston said it best:
"We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow."
Highly applicable in the political arena. I pity the man who blindly hitches their wagon to the same team of horses, without looking at the condition of the animals first.