The Presidency Is a Divider, Not a Uniter

The president increasingly has the power to reshape vast areas of american life. One man can decide whether we have a trade war with china or a shooting war with the rana. The modern presidency, by its very nature, is a divider, not a uniter. It's become far too powerful to be anything else. And when so much turns on who controls the white house, you can bet we're going to be at each other's throats about it. But pol is now divides us more than sex, age, race or religion. In an important paper published last fall, a group of leading scholars suggests that religion is really a more fruitful source of metaphors for what's