America Is Polarized. It’s Why We Have to Start Listening to Each Other

Partisanship is nothing new. I grew up in a household where appliances that broke had "gone Democrat" on us. My family came by it honestly. Hoovers didn't like Democrats because of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's libelous partisan attacks on my great-grandfather Herbert Hoover, tethering him to the Great Depression. This personalization of hard times transformed the humanitarian hero of World War I into a villain of economic depravity. That reputation stuck for at least 70 years.