CAL THOMAS – Author and columnist

Topic: Hate coming from the left, why so much rage?

• On Friday, the Drudge Report ran these headlines: “Shots fired at a truck flying ‘Make America Great Again’ flag”; “Starbucks staff harasses Trump supporting customer”; “Time Warner defends funding ‘assassination play,’ ” in which Julius Caesar is presented as a Donald Trump look-alike in Shakespeare’s classic.

• So many of us identify as members of tribes — right, left, religious, secular, Republican, Democrat, socialist. No member of one tribe seems willing to speak to any member of another tribe, or find out how and why the other came to their point of view. Apparently, many people are fine with this, at least the political activists among them. They demand 100 percent conformity from members of their tribe. If one compromises in the smallest way in order to achieve something that will benefit the most people, they are denounced as insufficiently liberal or conservative.