Bill Kristol @BillKristol
Isn’t it more the opposite? Politics at its best is the ascent from loyalty to a person to a party to an idea. But it’s easy—to some degree inevitable—to slide back down, first to partisanship, then tribalism. — PolitiTweet.org
David Burge @iowahawkblog
Politics is the process of replacing loyalty to an idea with loyalty to a party, then with loyalty to a person