Loneliness and the rise of the partisan fringe

We often look at fringe groups and think "Gah, they're crazy!" That's potentially true. What if they are just lonely and seeking?

Mark Manson did a good newsletter this morning (link) on loneliness in modernity, which I've covered off on a few times as well: I actually wrote this post right when I was getting divorced three+ years ago, and I once exhorted us to stop ignoring loneliness as a topic. Episode 43 of this podcast I do, with my old Teach for America friend Dave, talked a…