Pix credit hereThe most interesting part, discursively at least, was to see now more fully developed a trope that has played well politically in a a divided country--the trope of painting the opposition party as the reactionary 'other.'  Certainly the opposition party (or at least some of its factions) did their bit to open the door to the effectiveness of this formulation, but it has been carefully curated in everything frm a string of Mr. [read post]