In our current hyper-polarized US climate, politics has moved from "what I think" to "who I am." We are witnessing identity fusion, a psychological phenomenon called identity fusion, where the boundary between the personal self and the group self is obliterated. The problem here is that when "we" becomes "me," individual logic dies.

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