Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | For nearly 300 miles along dramatic curves and desolate straightaways, State Route 33 passes seamlessly through California’s interior, exposing the attitudes and interests that divide it.A drive from the beaches of Ventura to the outskirts of Stockton, from Democratic strongholds into Trump country and back, reveals befuddlement over the state of politics in America. There’s a common desire to come together, but no agreement on how to get there.As California joins 13 other states in holding presidential primaries on Super Tuesday, many here are...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | For nearly 300 miles along dramatic curves and desolate straightaways, State Route 33 passes seamlessly through California’s interior, exposing the attitudes and interests that divide it.A drive from the beaches of Ventura to the outskirts of Stockton, from Democratic strongholds into Trump country and back, reveals befuddlement over the state of politics in America. There’s a common desire to come together, but no agreement on how to get there.As California joins 13 other states in holding presidential primaries on Super Tuesday, many here are...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump’s case of COVID-19 has tested Americans’ willingness to express empathy for a leader who, many believe, brings out the worst in people.Trump’s detractors say the scorn and schadenfreude heaped on him since his diagnosis have been long in the making, given the president’s proclivity for using his powerful position to call for his political enemies to be prosecuted, disparage people he doesn’t like as “stupid” and “nasty,” spew racist and xenophobic rhetoric, and downplay a pandemic that has killed more than 213,000...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump’s case of COVID-19 has tested Americans’ willingness to express empathy for a leader who, many believe, brings out the worst in people.Trump’s detractors say the scorn and schadenfreude heaped on him since his diagnosis have been long in the making, given the president’s proclivity for using his powerful position to call for his political enemies to be prosecuted, disparage people he doesn’t like as “stupid” and “nasty,” spew racist and xenophobic rhetoric, and downplay a pandemic that has killed more than 213,000...WW…