<p>My parents and I were friends. In the 1990s, they found Rush Limbaugh and started making a whole lot of assumptions, and all hell broke loose.</p>

3. Uncommon ground

My mother was a Rush Limbaugh-loving conservative. I was so liberal I moved to Canada. In Suasion, I talk about how we lost, then found, a way to talk, what’s behind the great political divide—and why deep understanding is the best weapon in a war of persuasion.