Some of us are purely tribal--our loyalty is to our family, posse, gang, political party, identity group, no matter what. That's been part of the gangster ethos of the Trump Administration. Others among us are ideological: our primary loyalty is to values and truth, and we will repudiate or tell harsh truths about even people we love if they violate those values. The tribalists will repudiate values to stay with the gang. It's a way to understand how good Republicans are at cohesiveness and how bad Democrats can be, and why that is sometimes a good thing.
--Rebecca Solnit
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