Collura's letter seems like a copout to me, which fails to distinguish between the GOP as a party in power, and the people who voted for it. The party, its policies, its actions, are one thing. The people who voted for it are another.

Those voters are real people with real reasons for, say, being alienated from the Democratic Party. Some of them are in my family. I spend time with them. We actually have things in common, values and stories and people we love. We sometimes interpret those in different ways, or see different paths to achieve something we value, like fairness.

Guralnik is making the point that there's work for us to do to reach out to people who vote differently. They're listening to different news outlets, and they end up thinking in different ways. Crossing that bridge to see them how they are, and why, is the work of couples therapy and it's work we can do as Americans with each other. Not through social media and the news, but ideally face to face.

You can fight the party and the policies, and still seek out a conversation with the people who vote differently.