There’s a growing storm of anger in American politics — from both the left and the right — and it’s not just toxic. It’s exhausting. In this episode of Meeting in the Middle, host Julius Hernandez takes a step back from the noise to examine how grievance politics has taken hold of our discourse, what it’s doing to our democracy, and what a better path forward might look like. Drawing inspiration from Senator Cory Booker’s “politics of love,” this episode offers not just a critique of outrage culture, but a plea for something more hopeful, more human, and more sustainable. Because if anger is all we have left, we’ll burn out before we ever build anything real.