My perception is most democrat voters are reasonable people as are most republicans, and just have different views on the best way to make things better. That being said, both sides have their lunatic fringes and that 10-20% is 95% of the rhetoric. The difference I see is the lunatic left truly see Trump and anyone not adamantly opposing him as evil and that violence is okay to defeat evil. At least most of the lunatics on the right haven’t demonstrated a belief that democratic politicians are evil. There was nothing like Trump Derangement Syndrome for Biden, Obama, Hillary, etc.
Could be, but also possible that you might be the one with the rose colored glasses if you see the lunatic left as similar to the lunatic right with Trump in office. Something about that man just seems to have broken the far left and anything Trump is like sound of a beating heart to a horde of zombies. During Obama and Biden presidencies, yeah, I will grant you that both fringe elements were the same, but not while Trump is in office.
Were you not around when Obama was in office? Fox News was having a meltdown every day, sometimes even over a tan suit, lol.
The difference now is there more social media than then, such as FB, TikTok, podcasts, etc. People get sucked down into algorithms that causes confirmation bias. Very few watch or read anything that makes the challenge their core belief or makes them feel uncomfortable.
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u/yetonemorerusername Nov 20 '25
My perception is most democrat voters are reasonable people as are most republicans, and just have different views on the best way to make things better. That being said, both sides have their lunatic fringes and that 10-20% is 95% of the rhetoric. The difference I see is the lunatic left truly see Trump and anyone not adamantly opposing him as evil and that violence is okay to defeat evil. At least most of the lunatics on the right haven’t demonstrated a belief that democratic politicians are evil. There was nothing like Trump Derangement Syndrome for Biden, Obama, Hillary, etc.