Platforms like Twitter seem to house nothing but vile political discourse and division. Let’s pray for unity instead.

From WORLD. For years, I’ve wondered what journalists and other influential liberals are doing on Twitter. They treat the social media network as if it’s some kind of private clubhouse where they talk to each other freely, blissfully unaware that they are confirming everyone else’s worst suspicions about how elites think.

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“I’ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career,” Edward Luce, an author and the associate editor of the Financial Times, announced recently. “Have never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. Nothing close.” Suffice it to say, Luce’s comments aren’t surprising—it should be abundantly obvious that the mainstream media is a completely broken institution, and that it profits by creating political conflict. And, speaking of Twitter, you can scroll down and find a number of prominent financial consultants and other notables purporting to agree with Luce—not to mention some 75,000 people who “liked” the tweet.

This was all bad, but what really raised eyebrows was when former Gen. Michael Hayden chimed in to say, “I agree. And I was the CIA Director.” (Hayden got 124,000 “likes.”) To be clear, if your job is studying violent ideologies or threat assessment and you conclude that “today’s Republicans”—whatever that broad category is supposed to mean—are more “nihilistic, dangerous and contemptible” than ISIS, Boko Haram, or Al Qaeda, you are completely consumed by politics or very bad at your job….

However, pointing out that Hayden defines “nihilistic, dangerous, and contemptible” in an entirely self-interested manner doesn’t make his remarks any less irresponsible and dangerous. If Republicans are worse than ISIS, how does that imply they should be treated?…

For all the complaints about Trump—and I’m sympathetic to a number of them—comments such as Hayden’s really make it obvious how he got elected….

Trump was the first major politician, let alone president, to question the judgment of our national security establishment. I don’t think Hayden took the unsubtle, Trumpian criticism of his role in America’s failed international conflicts very well, not that it matters much….

Suffice it to say, I could level my criticisms of Hayden and America’s foreign policy establishment in much more colorful and exacting terms, but I sincerely hope Hayden, and so many others in similar positions, see how this politically motivated hostility harms the country as a whole and is a mirror image of what they claim to oppose….

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(Excerpt from WORLD. Photo Credit: Brett Jordan on Unsplash)