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Megan McArdle
Confirmation bias is an odd choice. I think I can see where she's coming from -- people assume members of their respective political outgroups to be inherently malicious, and form their judgments of specific actions accordingly -- but the assumption of malice does all the work there.
Hostile attribution bias seems like a better fit to me, maybe with a dash of outgroup homogenity.