Our Political Opponents Are Now Our “Enemies”

Here’s Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, asserting that the President of the United States is “trying to destroy” (the country).

Apparently, this type of rhetoric plays well in the American south, where the people, mostly poorly educated, eagerly accept the idea that Democrats are actively engaged in ruining our nation.

Fortunately, this type of language is not particularly effective elsewhere.

More to the point, we used to have political opponents, rather than enemies.  We hire these people to make laws that guide our lives, and sometimes these processes require compromise, or at least the recognition that the guy across the aisle is actually not a traitor to his country.