Seems like news and discussions these days have a lot more focus on “-isms.” Hardly a day goes by that you won’t hear about authoritarianism or fascism or racism, sexism, ageism or something else.

There are even crazy-sounding religious -isms like Frisbeetarianism (comedian George Carlin’s pitch that someone’s soul gets stuck on a roof after death) and “Dude-ism” for people who advocate the odd, harmonious lifestyle based on the satirical performance by actor Jeff Bridges of The Dude in The Big Lebowski.

In art, you’ve got Dadaism, minimalism, pointillism, cubism, surrealism, impressionism, and on and on.

But it’s the political -isms that seem to be all over the place these days, perhaps because in our increasingly polarized society, there’s a national need to figure out the tribe in

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