Something has gone wrong with politics, and almost everyone can feel it. Elections are no longer contests between competing policy visions. They are existential confrontations between good and evil. Political opponents are not merely mistaken. They are dangerous, contaminated, irredeemable. Every election cycle is declared the most consequential in living memory. Every policy dispute carries the emotional charge of a theological crisis. And the people engaged in these battles exhibit a fervor, a certainty, and a willingness to destroy relationships that would have been recognizable to any medieval inquisitor.