In Politics, coalitions are a reflection of culture.
In Sports, the rules are documented and authoritative.
What they have in common is the lack of rationality.
Politics and Sports are certainly both zero-sum examples of tribalism.
When the nuance is the tuck rule, reds zone strategy, or clock management, folks can parse the nuance.
The “affective responsibility” of sports is basically trolling: provoking emotional impact on cultural rivals.
In Politics, people have don’t have the same emotional responsibility or appetite for the nuance of interpreting actual “policy” of legalese.
Instead fans of politics focus on the rhetoric, or “chants” of the opposing fans, not even the play on the field, the strategy, quality, nor capabilities of players on the field.
