This is just one example – singing Amazing Grace at the caucus meeting planning the debt default. But as you survey the whole terrain of this multiheaded shutdown, ObamacareDefundo, debt default crisis, you start to see that the divide is not simply one of ideology but something more basic about the times we’re living in.

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69% of self-identified Tea Party Republicans say the US “can go past the [debt default] deadline … without major economic problems.”