Political parties as cults, the party of Trump far more so than the Democrats; how to govern a multicultural and pluralistic society; Saudi Arabia and the regime's switch from backing orthodoxy to backing modernization while the pivot is not about morals but maintaining power--these are some of the overlapping topics in your excellent piece and mine the other day, the first I have placed in Pitfall, which I only heard of because I read you. https://medium.com/pitfall/the-world-especially-the-middle-east-reflects-more-shades-of-grey-than-any-box-of-crayola-crayons-50dca751d2db subtitled "Black-and-white thinking, confirmation bias, identity politics, and polarity consciousness are cancers upon humanity, while moderation, which respects all colors of the rainbow, contains more powerful messages than even the most vibrant grey"