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So one of the big questions that has plagued American politics for the last decade and a half is what the hell is going on.

And in order to understand what the hell is going on, I think we need to understand

the transformation that happened around the year 2014. Between 2012 and 2014, something radically

changed in American politics. Now, some of that is the rise of social media. Obviously,

this is something that the social psychologist, Jonathan Haidt, of NYU, has discussed ad nauseum.

It's the idea that because we're all addicted to our phones, because we are able to find

our own little clicks of people on the internet, and then zoom around headlines, both true

and untrue. This means that we have sort of poisoned in our own brains. And there's a lot of

truth to that. I mean, I've talked at length about how algorithms are feeding you information. That may not be true and generally is going to confirm your preexisting biases. But there's something else that happened to. And that's a real world thing. That real world thing is the rise of DEI. So in 2012, which again, I still consider 2012 to be the most important

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