It also blinds him to the fundamental racial divide upon which both liberalism and the black-Jewish alliance fractured.
There is no fundamental ideological divide in the Labor Party for the first time in 100 years of history.
And this, in turn, reveals a more fundamental divide in the Republican party - one that may cost it dearly at the general election.
The most fundamental divide between them is whether the union will move toward a more federalist model.
Americans are aware that there is a fundamental divide in Washington, D.C. over how to revive our lagging economy.
But the practice of science will probably turn out to be the last fundamental divide between humans and the other inhabitants of this planet.
Economic issues form a fundamental divide between the parties.
That fundamental divide will put them at a permanent disadvantage in endeavours to provide quality services to the citizen.
So this day is an opportunity to look at perhaps the most fundamental divide between America and the rest of the industrialized world: faith.
At issue in the dispute over the plan is a fundamental divide, a seemingly arcane difference over process.