False equivalency will be the death of us
No, ER, "Liberals and Conservatives are" not "locked in a bitter struggle over the irrelevant and the ridiculous". The "Right" is manufacturing outrage and pure bullshit at a furious pace, and trying bury Liberals in it. The only bitter struggle is the truth trying to get its shoes tied while the lies are halfway around the world.
It's like describing the monkeys at the zoo throwing feces at visitors as a "furious struggle between monkeys and humans".
No, it's just monkeys throwing shit.