Political partisans are abandoning shared national rituals in favor of gathering with like-minded crowds, @ToluseO writes. He attended the Democrats’ bizarre, crass version of counterprogramming: “State of the Swamp.”

Political partisans are abandoning shared national rituals in favor of gathering with like-minded crowds, @ToluseO writes. He attended the Democrats’ bizarre, crass version of counterprogramming: “State of the Swamp.”