Love your neighbor. Even if he votes for Trump

Published November 1, 2020 12:00pm ET



When the Girl Scouts congratulated Amy Coney Barrett, the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court, in a tweet that also pictured the other four female justices (including the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg), Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley scolded the group, and angry Twitter mobs piled on until the Girl Scouts gave in and took down the tweet.

It was a sad moment. The most important message there isn’t about angry Twitter mobs or the Girl Scouts’ decline. It’s a story of our country’s growing intolerance of political disagreement.

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