@msbellows This is it, precisely. Or, put another way: Politics includes morality. "Politics" does not mean "unimportant" or "orthagonal to morality."

They try to sweep that moral importance under the rug with mealy-mouthed protests about "you'd cut me off just because we disagree?" and "it's just politics, aren't we bigger than that?" But when has politics ever been bloodless? Politics starts wars and genocides. Politics erects concentration camps and halts funding for cancer research.